State Ex Rel. Pacific Fruit & Produce Co. v. Superior Court

This cause comes to us upon an application for a writ of mandate requiring the superior court of King county to enter an order dismissing, for want of prosecution, an action pending in that court. The application is founded upon Rule 3, Rules of Practice, 18 Wn. (2d) 32-a, Rem. Rev. Stat. (Sup.), § 308-3 [P. C. § 8676-6].

January 6, 1942, John McB. Meade, as a stockholder of relator corporation, started an action, in the superior court of King county seeking certain relief for the corporation, himself, and other stockholders similarly situated. The answer to the complaint was served on counsel…