Normile v. R. H. Thompson

Citations

• 37 Wash. 465
• 79 P. 1095
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 754

Syllabus

<p>Labor — Public Works — Eight-Hour Day — Constitutional Law —Right of Contract. An ordinance prescribing an eight-hour day, and forbidding the employment for longer hours of any laborer upon municipal construction work, making the same a part of all city contracts for such work, and providing a penalty for any violation thereof by any city contractor, is not unconstitutional as in conflict with the fourteenth amendment or any other federal or state constitutional provision, since the same relates only to public works, and the state has a right to do its work in any manner it sees fit, and no violation of private rights is involved.</p> <p>Appeal and Error — Review. Where a case is tried in the court below solely on the theory of the unconstitutionality of a statute, the party will not be heard in the supreme court on the theory that the case came within certain exceptions to the statute.</p>