Sorenson v. Webb

Citations

• 111 Miss. 87
• 71 So. 273

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional Law. Master and servant. Equal protection of law. regulation of manufacturers. Payment to employees. Statutes. Glassification.</p> <p>Acts 1912, chapter 141, sections 1, 2, imposing a penalty in a reasonable attorney’s fee upon every manufacturer for a failure to pay his employees once every calendar month, recoverable* if the employee has employed an attorney, by suit ten days after-demand, in addition to the amount of wages due is unconstitutional as violating the provisions of Const., U. S. Amend. 14 and Const., Miss., art. 3, section 14, forbidding the denial of the. equal protection of the laws, since the act arbitrarily selects-manufacturers as a class upon whom to enforce the penalty without any reasonable and proper basis for the classification.</p>