State ex rel. Collins v. Howell

Citations

• 80 Wash. 649
• 141 P. 1157

Syllabus

<p>Corporations—Name—Filing Articles—Duty oe Secretary oe State. Where the name of a proposed corporation is so similar to that of corporations lawfully doing business in the state as to lead to possible confusion, it is the duty of the secretary of state to reject the offered articles of corporation, under Bern. & Bal. Code, § 3680, providing that no corporation shall take the name of a corporation theretofore organized, nor one so nearly resembling the name of such other corporation as to be misleading; and the proposed name “Kennewick Fruit Exchange” is so similar to the name “Kennewick District Fruit Growers’ Association” as to be misleading.</p>