State v. Fraternal Knights & Ladies

Citations

• 35 Wash. 338
• 77 P. 500
• 1904 Wash. LEXIS 454

Syllabus

<p>Statutes — Title — Beneficial Associations — Regulation — Prescribing Minimum Rate. Laws 1901, p. 356, entitled. “An act regulating fraternal beneficiary societies,” does not violate the constitutional prohibition against a bill’s embracing more than one subject, by reason of the inclusion of § 12, p. 362, which fixes a minimum rate for insurance by all such associations thereafter authorized to transact business in this state, since “regulation” is broad enough to include said section.</p> <p>Beneficial Associations — Statutes — Construction — Certainty — Reference to Mortality Table — Minimum Rate. The act of 1901, p. 356, regulating beneficial societies by fixing a rate for assessment's not lower than as indicated by the table designated “Fraternal Congress Mortality Table,” is not objectionable as vague and uncertain, nor because the same belongs to the domain of evidence and ought to be subject to impeachment, since it is competent for the legislature to determine the rate by adopting such tables and incorporating them into the law.</p> <p>Same — Constitutional Law — Class Legislation — Equal Protection — Regulations Applying to New Corporations. Laws 1901, p. 356, regulating new corporations to he thereafter authorized to do business in this state, and making them a class unto themselves, does not violate the constitution, art. 1, § 12, forbidding the granting of special privileges to any citizen or class; nor does it violate art. 12, § 7, providing that no corporation outside the limits of the state shall he allowed to transact business on more favorable conditions than those prescribed for domestic corporations, where the law applies equally to all foreign and domestic corporations thereafter to he authorized to transact business, since it is only necessary that the laws operate alike upon all similarly situated.</p>