Mutual Home Ass'n v. Joe's Bay Trading Co.

Citations

• 73 Wash. 486
• 131 P. 1140
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1625

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — License Fees — Right op Action — Statutes—Construction. A corporation having no capital stock is not required to pay an annual license fee as a condition precedent to bringing an action, under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 3714, providing that every corporation incorporated under the laws of this state shall pay the following annual license fees: “Every corporation having a capital stock, fifteen dollars,” and § 3715, providing that no corporation shall commence any suit without alleging and proving payment of its license fee last due; since the amount of the fee for such corporation is not fixed by law, and therefore cannot be demanded.</p>