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"The tern 'store* as used in this Act shall,be
qonstrued to man and include any store or stores
or any aercnntile eotnblishmat or ostablishzents
'not spealficallyaxmpted wLth.iin this Xot whiich
are owned, opsrateil, n:eintaincd,~or controlled
- by the ~(1~8person, agent, rocsioer, trustee, fira,
'aorporation,copnrtnorshipor nssoaiation,either
. dorcastL0or forel2n, in ~Aich g03do, mre3 or mer-
o!mndise of an7 kind are sald,,otretafl or-?~holerole.w
In the recent cnse of Euiurt
v. Coopor, 130 TBX. 453; 110
s. 3. (2d) 896, the 5upr'ezoCourt of Talonshuld the entire net,
aonotitutionalaad indicated t:lattXo,definitlon of the word
"store"would control in construlng~theact. The aourt said:
*The statute hairin+
.4defined the ~013, ve are mt
ccncarnod t3,thits usual imminj:."
:i'e thlhi: t!iEt t3.c otoro ym rolzr ta in your latter io
covorod 5~ ttiodefinition in ;:cctIo:~
7, mlecs it is ~s~zciP:cnlly .I
exsxptcd"in so:?u ot!xr pwt of th statuto.
The orexptions nm set out in Smticn 5 of the :ict,nnd
t:ie-only
pnrt of Lootion 5 that could possibly be csnsidorod ns
3oply+t;,
to the store in question in that pm% which reads as fnl-
l-ws:
Vrovided thot the term, *stwo, stems, mwoentlle
establisiizn,o~t
or rrorcantiloes~tnbl.is!mx0x4
w:lorovcr
used in thie r~ctsh?LLlnot inclu&: r:ii~l~:o~lu
and/or
retail luber n:ldbuild& ~;-.ntorP&l
businosscs en-
gaged exclu~ivolyin the salu cf llccbzrsnd building
xttorial; . . .-
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:r. Vi.D. Lane, J&wary 9, 193Q,'Pa&x'2
,‘fl& Gas co., 102 ::.-