Dry v. Davidson

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal involves alone the constitutionality of subdivision or paragraph 7 of Penal Code, art. 1583, as amended by Senate Bill No. 89, which became effective April 19 of 1937, Vernon’s Ann.P.C. art. 1583, subd. 7, applied to cities of Houston’s class, and runs as follows: “7. It is further provided that in any city of more than seventy-five thousand (75,000), inhabitants that each member of any such department shall receive a sum of One Hundred Fifty ($150.00) Dollars per month as a minimum wage for said services so rendered.”

The suit itself, as brought by appellant —in…