Marcum v. Owens-Parks Lumber Co.

YANKWICH, District Judge.

Action for damages to dock employee while the cargo of a steamship was being unloaded on a dock of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, at Longview, Washington, on the Columbia River.

The action was begun in the State courts and removed here, on the ground of diversity of citizenship. The defendant is a California corporation, without a designated agent in the State of Washington.

The plaintiff served the master of its steamship, “Cricket”. The defendant has moved to quash the service, upon the ground that the captain is not an agent upon whom service might be had.

Under the…