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187 Wash. 605

60 P.2d 681

Johnson v. State

Washington Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1936

Washington Supreme Court · decided 1936-09-15

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Decided 1936-09-15

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Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2011

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Geraghty, J.

¶1 (dissenting) — It is to be regretted that this case is disposed of on the technical ground sustaining the majority opinion. I should like to have seen the court decide the constitutional issues involved in the act.

¶2*617 While, admittedly, the provision in the act fixing its effective date is poorly drawn, as I see it, there can be no donbt that the legislature intended the act to dovetail into legislation of similar import then under consideration by Congress. The reference to the Wagner-Doughton bill was descriptive of type, rather than specific detail. There can be no doubt that, in its broad aspects, the congressional act ultimately passed conformed to the plan of the so-called Wagner-Doughton bill.

¶3 For this reason, I am dissenting from the majority opinion.

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