Morgan v. Department of Social Security

(dissenting) — I concur in the opinion of Judge Simpson that the act, as passed by the people of this state functioning as legislators, gave to the senior citizens a minimum of forty dollars monthly regardless of the action of the national social security board, otherwise the act is unconstitutional.

The author of the dissenting opinion in In re Hudson, 13 Wn. (2d) 673, 126 P. (2d) 765, said that a penal statute then in force furnished some light on the attitude of the legislature toward the problem there presented and served to evince a legislative recognition of the parental duty to provide…