Henry v. County of Thurston

Citations

• 31 Wash. 638
• 72 P. 488
• 1903 Wash. LEXIS 682

Syllabus

<p>CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF SUPREME COURT -VALIDITY OF STATUTE.</p> <p>Where the supreme court obtains jurisdiction of an appeal in an action in which the original amount in controversy does not exceed the sum of $200, merely because of the fact that the validity of a statute is put in issue as to one of several causes of action included in the complaint, its jurisdiction extends only to the cause of action affected by the statute.</p> <p>SAME —■ EQUAL PRIVILEGES MILEAGE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS.</p> <p>Section 8 of the act of March 19, 1901 (Laws 1901, p. 377) authorizing county superintendents to charge five cents mileage in counties of the first to the tenth classes inclusive and ten cents mileage in all counties having a higher class number than the tenth, does not violate art. 1, § 12, of the state constitution, which prohibits the passage of laws granting to any citizen or class of citizens, privileges or immunities which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all.</p> <p>SAME-EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS.</p> <p>Such a law cannot be said to operate unequally, and therefore in violation of the fourteenth amendment of the United States constitution, in the absence of a showing that the cost of travel is the same in all counties.</p>