Trans-Northwest Gas, Inc. v. Northwest Natural Gas Co.

The denial of a change of venue by the trial court is before us for review by certiorari.

We shall refer to the parties as plaintiff and defendant, as they were designated in the trial court. Both parties are corporations, plaintiff being a Washington corporation and defendant a Delaware corporation. Both of them were organized to build and operate transmission pipe lines and incidental facilities to transport natural gas from the province of Alberta, Canada, to serve various communities in the state of Washington and elsewhere.

Plaintiff brought this action in Spokane county to restrain…