Gerrick & Gerrick Co. v. Llewellyn Iron Works

The respondent is a foreign corporation, whose home office is located at Los Angeles, California. In the year 1908, it qualified itself to do business in the state of "Washington by filing its articles of incorporation, paying the annual corporation license fees, fixing its principal place of business in the state at Seattle, and appointing one Parvin Wright as its statutory agent upon whom service of process could be made. Wright acted as its agent until the year 1913, when he abandoned the agency to enter into a separate business on his own account. No other statutory agent was thereafter…