Korstad v. Williams

Citations

• 80 Wash. 452
• 141 P. 881
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1313

Syllabus

<p>Associations — Contracts — Liability of Members — Actions— Pleading—Defenses. The fact that the local members of a fraternity entered into a lease executed by the president and secretary in the name of the association, does not preclude the landlord, in suing for rent, from alleging that the members were a voluntary association and contracted as copartners; and it would be no defense to the action that there was a duly organized corporation in another state of the same name assumed by the tenants in the lease.</p>