Slocum v. Bear Valley Irrigation Co.

Citations

• 122 Cal. 555
• 55 P. 403
• 1898 Cal. LEXIS 631

Syllabus

<p>Act fob Payment of Wages by Cobfobations—Constitutional Law— Special Legislation—Abbitbaby Classification.—The act approved May 31, 1891, “to provide for the payment of wages of mechanics and laborers employed by corporations” (Stats. 1891, p. 195), is special legislation inhibited by the constitution, as purporting to create liens in favor of a special class of laborers, and attempting a mere arbitrary, classification, not founded upon natural differences, or differences defined by the constitution.</p>