State v. Robinson Co.

Citations

• 84 Wash. 246
• 146 P. 628
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 791

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional Law — Special Legislation — Food—-Regulation— Stock Food — Statutes. Rem. & Bal. Code, §§ 6011-6022, regulating the sale of “concentrated commercial feeding stuffs” and defining the same as including “wheat bran, wheat middlings, wheat shorts . . . mixed feeds and mixed meals made from seeds or grains,” etc., is invalid as violating the inhibition of the state constitution (art. 1, § 12), against class legislation; inasmuch as it exempts from the operation of the act cereal or flouring mills, permitting them to sell “mill bran, shorts, or middlings made in the regular process of manufacturing cereal or flour,” without complying with the statutory regulations therein provided, while all others selling the same class of feed are required to submit thereto.</p> <p>Same. The act cannot be held valid by interpolating the word “only” in section 13 (Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6022), exempting cereal and flouring mills selling “only” mill bran; etc., as no such intention appears.</p> <p>Same — -Food—Regulation—Statutes - — ■ Pabtial Invalidity. The act cannot be held valid by the exclusion of § 13 thereof (Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6022), the section exempting cereal or flouring mills; since said section is a material part of the act, and to hold this section void and the balance of the act valid would be determining that the act applies to all persons dealing in such feed stuffs, when the legislature has expressly declared to the contrary.</p>