# Adams v. Ernst

> Washington Supreme Court · November 8, 1939 · 1 Wash. 2d 254

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3996854

## Case

- **Full name:** Sanna D. Adams, Respondent, v. Charles F. Ernst, as Director of the State Department of Social Security, Et Al., Appellants
- **Court:** Washington Supreme Court
- **Decided:** November 8, 1939
- **Citations:** 1 Wash. 2d 254; 95 P.2d 799
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Blake
- **Judges:** Steinert, Blake
- **Cited by:** 17 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Blake, C. J.
(dissenting)—Having qualified for a pension under Laws of 1935, chapter 182, p. 855, respondent became entitled to a monthly allowance of thirty dollars, which became vested each month until the effective date of Laws of 1939, chapter 25, p. 80.
Conant v. State,
197 Wash. 21 , 84 P. (2d) 378 .
*268
It is not necessary to obtain a judgment to enforce a right that has vested prior to the repeal or amendment of a statute under which the right accrues. See
Ettor v. Tacoma,
57 Wash. 50 , 106 Pac. 478 , 107 Pac. 1061 ; 228 U. S. 148 , 57 L. Ed. 773 , 33 S. Ct. 428 ; 77 Wash. 267 , 137 Pac. 820 .
I dissent.

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