McKnight v. Hodge

Citations

• 55 Wash. 289
• 104 P. 504
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 748

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional Law — Privileges of Citizens — Peddlers — Discrimination Between Classes. Laws 1909, p. 736, requiring a county license from peddlers, except peddlers of agricultural and farm products, and books, periodicals - and newspapers, does not arbitrarily discriminate between persons in substantially the same situation, but the classification is reasonable and germane to the object and purposes of the legislation and therefore constitutional.</p> <p>Same — Discrimination Between Localities — Delegation of Power. Laws 1909, p. 736, requiring a county license from all peddlers except in cities and towns when their licensing is regulated by such cities or towns, is not an unconstitutional discrimination between classes, since the legislature may delegate, as a revenue measure, the power on the subject to cities and towns, and it is not necessary that the police power be exercised by uniform regulations throughout the state.</p> <p>Same — Discrimination Between Classes. Laws 1909, p. 736, requiring a license fee of $100 from peddlers on foot, $150 and $250 from peddlers with one and two horses, and $300 from peddlers with other conveyances, is not unconstitutional as exacting unequal fees, as the classification is a proper basis for measuring the license fee.</p> <p>Statutes — Provisos — Repugnancy — Hawkers and Peddlers— License. The proviso to Laws 1909, p. 737, § 3, that county peddlers’ licenses shall expire by limitation on the second Monday in January succeeding the year in which they were issued, is wholly inconsistent with and repugnant to the body of the act requiring the issuance of an annual license authorizing the licensee to do business for the term of one year from the date thereof, and is therefore inoperative and void.</p> <p>Hawkers and Peddlers — License Pee — Reasonableness. An annual county license fee of $100 from peddlers on foot, $150 and $250 from peddlers with one and two horses, and $300 from peddlers with other conveyances, is not ex