Nichols v. Olympia Veneer Co.

The appellant Olympia Veneer Company is a corporation, organized under the laws of the state of Washington. The respondent Nichols is a stockholder of the appellant. She instituted the present action to recover dividends which she claimed to be due upon her stock, alleging the amount due to be $776. The appellant, in its answer, admitted that the respondent’s stock had earned in dividends, during the perio“d covered by her complaint, the sum of $751.50, but pleaded as counterclaim thereto four separate items. The first two were paid upon judgments obtained against the appellant in actions…