Fisher Flouring Mills Co. v. Brown

Citations

• 109 Wash. 680
• 187 P. 399
• 1920 Wash. LEXIS 952

Syllabus

<p>Statutes (14)—Subjects and Titles. The title to Laws 1919, p. 248, et seg., referring to the “adulteration” of concentrated commercial feeding stuffs sufficiently expresses, the subject-matter of § 3 (as required by Const., art. 2, § 19), which limits to ten per cent the amount of crude fiber in the feeds enumerated; since “adulteration” in the title applies to the addition of weaker or less nutritious substances and not merely to foreign substances.</p> <p>Constitutional Law (48, 116, 134)—Regulation oe Trade or Business—Police Powers—Equal Protection oe the Laws—Due Process. The state and Federal constitutional guarantees of due process and equal protection of the laws do not apply to laws enacted by the state legislature in the exercise of its police powers; hence Laws 1919, p. 248 et seg., relating to the adulteration of concentrated feeding stuffs, enacted for the protection of dairymen and stockmen; does not violate Const., art. 1, §§ 3 and 12, or the 14th amendment to the Federal constitution; notwithstanding that some innocuous feed stuffs are incidentally included within the prohibition of the law.</p>