Gerrick & Gerrick Co. v. Llewellyn Iron Works

Citations

• 105 Wash. 98
• 177 P. 692
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 536

Syllabus

<p>Contracts (3)—Locus. Preliminary negotiations in this state leading up to a written contract formerly entered into in the state of California, are insufficient to establish the locus of the contract in this state.</p> <p>Corporations (263)—Foreign Corporations — Process — Doing Business in This State—Agent. The liability to personal service of a foreign corporation doing business in this state rests entirely upon statute; and where, under Rem. Code, §§ 3720-3722, a corporation had authority to do business and such authority had been formally revoked and' forfeited for failure to pay its annual license fees, personal service cannot be . made upon its former statutory agent, in an action which accrued subsequent to the forfeiture; and it is immaterial that his designation as agent had not been formally revoked.</p> <p>Same (263). Rem. Code, §3722, making a foreign corporation, once authorized to do business in this state subject to service in actions arising upon its contracts after revocation of its authority and its corporate entity had ceased in this state, does not apply to a cause of action accruing upon a foreign contract after its withdrawal from this state.</p>