Barrett Manufacturing Co. v. Kennedy

Citations

• 73 Wash. 503
• 131 P. 1161
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1628

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Foreign Corporations — Actions—Service of Process. The statute authorizing service of process upon the statutory agent of a foreign corporation is only cumulative, and service may be made under the general statute.</p> <p>Same — Service of Process — “Any Agent.” Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 226, authorizing suit against a foreign corporation by service of process upon “any agent, cashier or secretary thereof,” service may be made upon any agent having representative authority, e. g., an agent having sole charge of defendant’s warehouse during the absence from the state of its statutory agent and resident manager, empowered to ship out and receive freight, make out shipping bills, sell goods and solicit orders; “agents” not being limited to agents of the class of “cashier or secretary.”</p>