State ex rel. Rothwell & Co. v. Superior Court

This is an original proceeding in this court wherein the relator seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent the superior court for King county from issuing a commission to take the depositions of certain witnesses residing in the state of New York, to be read in evidence upon the hearing of relator’s motion to quash a service of summons purported to have been made upon it personally in King county, which summons was issued in an action commenced against it by the filing of a complaint in the superior court for that county.

On September 5, 1919, Cook Swan Company, a corporation, commenced an action…