State v. Davis

Citations

• 43 Wash. 116
• 86 P. 201
• 1906 Wash. LEXIS 664

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Eight Hour Law. — Statutes — Repeal. Laws 1899, p. 163, providing for an eight-hour day on public work, and making it a misdemeanor for a contractor to employ laborers thereon for longer than eight hours a day, except in cases of emergency, is not impliedly repealed hy Laws 1905, p. 51, o'n the same subject, prescribing an eight-hour day on public work, except in case of emergency, under penalty of forfeiture of the contract, and defining the term of emergency; since the two acts may stand together.</p> <p>Same — Criminal Law — Complaint. A complaint in a criminal prosecution for violation of the eight-hour law, is sufficient where a person of common understanding can readily see that the defendant had a public contract with a county for the construction of a bridge, and employed men to work thereon more than eight hours per day.</p> <p>Same — Ineormation—Statutes—Pleading—Exceptions. A complaint for the violation of the eight-hour day law on public work, except in case of emergency, need not negative the exception as to such emergency, as that is matter of defense when the same is not in the enacting clause of the act.</p> <p>Criminal Law — Justice oe the Peace — Jurisdiction—Master and Servant — Hours oe Labor. Under Laws 1901, p. 34 (3 Bal. Code, § 4683), limiting fines hy a justice of the peace to $100, and conferring upon justices jurisdiction of all misdemeanors, a justice has jurisdiction of the misdemeanor of violating the eight-hour day law, punishable by a fine of from $25 to $200, where the fine imposed did not exceed $100.</p> <p>Rudkin and Fullerton, JJ., dissenting.</p>