State Ex Rel. Paraffine Companies v. Wright

This is an application for a peremptory writ of mandate requiring the respondent, judge of the superior court of Thurston county, to transfer a cause of action from Thurston to King county.

Effie F. Mills, as administratrix of the estate of Frank S. Mills, her late husband, brought suit in the superior court of Thurston county against Francis P. Watts and wife and the Paraffine Companies, Inc., to recover damages for the death of her husband, the result of injuries inflicted upon him by an automobile driven by Watts on the Pacific highway, in Thurs- ton county. The complaint alleged that Watts…