Peterson v. Puget Sound Biscuit Co.

Citations

• 60 Wash. 451
• 111 P. 561
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1069

Syllabus

<p>Pleading — Complaint—Sueeiciency—Negotiable Instruments— Fraudulent Conveyances. A complaint against a corporation and its receiver fails to set forth any cause of action against the defendants, where it merely sets up a promissory note given by the-promoter of the corporation in payment for machinery, and alleges that the corporation and the promoter were one and the samé person, the incorporation of the former being illegal, and that the-assets of the corporation were the assets of the promoter, who was undertaking to cheat and defraud the plaintiff; it not being alleged that the defendants owed the plaintiff anything or had attempted to defraud the plaintiff.</p>