State v. Clark
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Griffin, J., entered November 7, 1905, upon sustaining a demurrer to the information in a prosecution of a building contractor for the violation, of “an act for the protection of builders.”
1Opinion of the CourtRudkin, J.
The defendant was informed against for violating § 1 of the act of February 27, 1890, Laws of 1889-90, page 128. A demurrer to the information was sustained on the ground that the subject of the act is not expressed in its title, as required by § 19 of art. 2, of the state constitution. The prosecuting attorney elected to stand on the information, and from an order of dismissal the state has appealed.
The title of the act is objectionable for two reasons: First, because it is misleading, and second, because it is too ambiguous and too indefinite to subserve any purpose1. The act in its…
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