State ex rel. New Arlington Hotel Co. v. Hinkle
Washington Supreme Court
Application filed in the supreme court March 17, 1921, for a writ of mandamus to compel the secretary of state to accept relators’ filing of articles of incorporation.
1Opinion of the Court
Holcomb,
J.—Relators seek, hy mandamus, to compel the secretary of state to accept the filing of articles of incorporation of a domestic corporation to be named “New Arlington Hotel Company, a corporation.”
As to the facts there is no controversy.
When the articles of incorporation were presented on February 14, 1921, the secretary of state refused to *299accept and file the articles, for the reason that the name of the proposed corporation was so nearly the same as that of an existing corporation as to be misleading. The existing corporation was tbe “Hotel Arlington Company”. That corporation,…
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