Williams v. Great Northern Railway Co.

Citations

• 108 Wash. 344
• 184 P. 340
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 888

Syllabus

<p>Corporations (115)—Officers and Agents — Employment — Removal. Under Rem. Code, § 3683, authorizing corporations to appoint “officers, agents and servants,” to require security of them, and to “remove them at will,” the term “servants” includes one employed by a railroad company as a switchman, and ‘is not restricted to employees in a fiduciary capacity.</p> <p>Evidence (27)—Presumptions—Laws of Other States. In the absence of pleading or proof, the law of the contract made in a sister state is presumed to be the same as our own.</p> <p>Contracts (174)—Actions for Breach — Pleading — Illegality. In an action upon a contract which is, upon its face, void and unenforcible, as a matter of law, the defendant may invoke Its invalidity as a defense without specially pleading it.</p> <p>Holcomb, C. J., dissents.</p>