State ex rel. American Savings Bank & Trust Co. v. Superior Court

Citations

• 116 Wash. 122
• 198 P. 744
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 807

Syllabus

<p>Corporations (195)—Actions—Venue—Transaction of Business. Where a trust company in the course of its business acquired by foreclosure fruit land in another county which it was compelled to cultivate until able to dispose of it, such cultivation would not constitute the transaction of its ordinary or customary business in such county, and hence it would not be liable to suit therein under Rem. Code, § 206, providing that “an action against a corporation may be brought in any county where the corporation transacts business.”</p> <p>Venue (9-1)—Domicile—Codefendants. Under Rem. Code, § 207, providing that actions must be tried in the county in which the defendants, or some of them, reside, a joint action against a corporation resident in another county and an individual who is a resident of another state was improperly brought in a county where neither resided, though real property belonging to both defendants had been attached on the ground of the non-residence of one of the defendants.</p> <p>Parker, C. J., and Holcomb, J., dissent.</p>