Sievers v. Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation Co.

Citations

• 24 Wash. 302
• 64 P. 539
• 1901 Wash. LEXIS 533

Syllabus

<p>FOREIGN CORPORATIONS-SERVICE OF SUMMONS-AGENTS WITHIN THE STATE.</p> <p>Under Bal. Code, § 4854, which provides that an action against a corporation may be brought in any county where the corporation has an office for the transaction of business, or any person resides upon whom process may be served against the corporation, and Id. § 4875, subd. 9, which provides that if suit be against a foreign corporation doing business within the state, summons may be served on any agent of the corporation, service of process issued out of the superior court of Clarke county upon a purser and a wharfinger in the employ of a foreign corporation is sufficient, where the company was operating a line of steamers on the Columbia river, which, under the charge of the purser, received and discharged freight and passengers at Vancouver, landing regularly at the wharf there for that purpose, and hence making the wharf an office in this state for the transaction of such business.</p> <p>ADMISSION OF EVIDENCE-HARMLESS ERROR.</p> <p>Error in permitting the husband to testify that the value of the loss of his wife’s services by reason of her sickness occasioned through the act of defendant was $2,000, instead of requiring the witness to state the facts and circumstances of the injury, for the purpose of allowing the jury - to determine the amount, was harmless, where the verdict rendered was for $600.</p> <p>NON-SUIT-SUFFICIENCY OF EVIDENCE.</p> <p>Refusal to grant a non-suit is not error, when there is evidence, though conflicting, sufficient under the allegations of the complaint to sustain the verdict.</p> <p>EXCESSIVE DAMAGES.</p> <p>In an action to recover damages against a navigation company for breach of a contract of carriage, and for injuries arising from the negligent and wrongful and forcible landing by defendant of an aged woman at a wrong destination, and the carelessness of defendant’s agents in the manner of putting her off upon a barren island, exposed to the inclemency of