Gamble v. Dawson

Citations

• 67 Wash. 72
• 120 P. 1060
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1120

Syllabus

<p>Domicile — Change • — ■ Abandonment — Intent — Evidence—Sufficiency. Tbe evidence is insufficient to show abandonment of domicile in tbis state, established here for many years, where the deceased returned to his native state owing to ill health, and remained there 18 months until he died, but intending to return to this state if he recovered his health, as shown by his letters and the fact that he did not sell his home or furniture, and other circumstances, although he bought a small place in his native state.</p> <p>Husband and Wife — Community Property — Administration— Venue. The widow is entitled to have administration of community personal property in the county of the domicile of the deceased at the time of his death.</p> <p>Corporations — Stock—Situs of Domestic Stock in Possession op Nonresident — Actions—Venue—Jurisdiction. The claimant of corporate stock is entitled to bring an action to recover the same at the place where the company is incorporated, notwithstanding the certificates are in the possession of a nonresident.</p> <p>Peocess — Substituted Seevice — Nonbesidents—Action as to Coepoeate Stock. Substituted service outside the state upon a nonresident stockholder of a domestic corporation is constructive notice and gives the court jurisdiction of an action to determine the title to the stock, and issuance of an attachment is unnecessary; since the court has jurisdiction of the res, and the corporation is protected by the decree, Rem. & Bal. Code, § 3693, providing that no transfer of stock shall be valid until it is entered on the books of the company.</p>