Bowman v. Frost, Commissioner of Welfare

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

This case involves the constitutionality of Chapter 157 of the Acts of the G-eneral Assembly of 1940 entitled “An Act to promote the public welfare by providing aid to the needy blind.” Section 1 of the Act defines “needy blind” as “a person or persons, who has no vision, or whose vision is so defective as to prevent the performance of ordinary activities for which eyesight is essential, or whose vision because of eye disease will become so defective without corrective or preventive treatment that ordinary and essential activities cannot be…