Penter v. Staight & Beavers
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from Superior Court, Whatcom County. Action by M. It. Staight and C. A. Beavers, copartners under the firm name of Staight & Beavers, against George W. Penter, to recover the sum of $700. The complaint was in two paragraphs; the first alleged money to be due on a contract to pay commissions as broker in making a sale of real estate; the second was for damages for injuring the good name and business standing of the plaintiffs.
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Appeal from Superior Court, Whatcom County. Action by M. It. Staight and C. A. Beavers, copartners under the firm name of Staight & Beavers, against George W. Penter, to recover the sum of $700. The complaint was in two paragraphs; the first alleged money to be due on a contract to pay commissions as broker in making a sale of real estate; the second was for damages for injuring the good name and business standing of the plaintiffs. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Stiles, J.
The complaint contained the separate statement of two improperly joined causes of action, in the first of which two hundred dollars was demanded, and in the second five hundred. Demurrers were interposed on the ground, first, that two causes of action had been improperly-joined; and, secondly, that the complaint did not state a cause of action. The court below, on the hearing of these demurrers, disregarded the first ground of demurrer, but ruled on the second to the effect that the first cause of action, aspleaded, was sufficient,but that…
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