Johanson v. Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Co.

Citations

• 225 F. 270
• 1915 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1249

Syllabus

<p>Corporations <@=>642—Foreign Corporations Doing Business Within the State. ■</p> <p>Rem. & Bal. Code Wash. § 226, subd. 9, provides that summons shall be served by delivering a copy thereof, if the suit be against a foreign corporation doing business within' the state, to any agent, cashier, or secretary thereof. The defendant corporation, which was chartered in Minnesota and conducted mining operations in Alaska, maintained a purchasing agent in Seattle, paying his salary, office rent, and expenses. The name of the agent and of the corporation appeared in the directories; but the purchasing agent could make no purchases which were not approved by the corporation. Held, that the corporation was not doing business within the state, so that service of summons upon the purchasing agent would give the court jurisdiction over the corporation.</p> <p>[Ed. Note.-—For other cases, see Corporations, Cent. Dig. §§ 2520-2527; Dec. Dig. <@=642.]</p> <p><ft£s>For other cases see same topic & KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests & Indexes</p>