Arrow Lumber & Shingle Co. v. Union Pacific Railroad

Citations

• 53 Wash. 629
• 102 P. 650
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 1381

Syllabus

<p>Railroads — Service of Process — Agents. The fact that a soliciting agent was advertised as the “General Agent” of defendant railway company does not authorize the service of process upon him, under Bal. Code, § 4875, suhd. 4, authorizing service upon any agent, where he derived no actual authority from the defendant, which had no interest in his office, and his reports were made to, and his salary was paid hy, other companies.</p> <p>Corporations — Foreign-—Service of Process — Doing Business in This State. The routing, by a soliciting agent, of freight and passenger business over the line of a foreign railway does not make him an agent of the company upon whom service of process may he made; and when contracts are made therefor as the contracts of other companies, which arranged the division of the transportation, the transaction does not amount to “doing business in this state” hy the foreign connecting lines.</p>