Farrier v. Ritzville Warehouse Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Adams county, Truax, J., entered January 19, 1920, in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action for equitable relief, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMackintosh, J.
In 1907, the appellant was incorporated for the purpose of conducting a farmers’ grain and warehouse business, and adopted, as one of its by-laws, a provision that the dividends of the corporation should he distributed among the stockholders by an equal distribution to them of fifty per cent thereof, and that the remaining fifty per cent should be divided among the stockholders hauling and selling wheat to the company, in proportion to the amount of wheat so sold and hauled. Another by-law provided that the by-laws might he amended, repealed or altered by a majority vote of the stockholders.
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- Seattle Trust Co. v. PitnerWashington Supreme Court · 1898
- State ex rel. Gwinn v. BucklinWashington Supreme Court · 1914
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