Watson v. Oregon Moline Plow Co.

Citations

• 113 Wash. 110
• 193 P. 222
• 1920 Wash. LEXIS 805

Syllabus

<p>Corporations (263) — Foreign Corporations — Actions—Service of Process — Agents. A contract between a foreign corporation manufacturing tractors, and a local dealer does not create an agency within Rem. Code, § 226, subd. 9, authorizing service of process upon any “agent” of a corporation doing business in this state, where, by the contract, the dealer agreed to buy a certain number of tractors, to be resold in a certain territory only, to make deposits on shipments, to use its best efforts in canvassing for sales, to take orders on printed forms of the company, in whose name the tractors were to be shipped, with title vested therein until paid for; and an agency is not created by the fact that the dealer agreed to make -no warranty other than that appearing on the company’s order blank, and td employ an expert and give the company notice if its expert service was required to demonstrate the machines.</p>