Shortall v. Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co.

Citations

• 45 Wash. 290
• 88 P. 212
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 458

Syllabus

<p>Statutes — Title—Amendments. The title “An act amending ... an act to provide for the payment of wages of labor in lawful money of the United States and to punish violations of the same” is broad enough to include a provision prescribing the time when such wages become due and payable, within the rule that the title need not he an index of the act hut is sufficient if it fairly indicates its substance and scope.</p> <p>Constitutional Law — Due Process — Master and Servant— Regulation of Payment of Wages. An act providing that the wages of labor shall he forthwith paid on cessation of the work is in accordance with a sound public policy, and is not unconstitutional as a deprivation of liberty or property without due process of law, and rendei’s the same at once due, notwithstanding a written contract postponing the date of payment upon the employee’s voluntarily leaving the service.</p>