Simpson v. Glacier Land Co.

The plaintiff’s action was dismissed for want of prosecution pursuant to Rule 41.04W, Rules of Pleading, Practice and Procedure, RCW Vol. 0.

The plaintiff sued for damages from all of the defendants for a breach of contract, and alternatively in quantum meruit, for their failure to pay the plaintiff, an industrial engineer, for services rendered to them in connection with the sale of standing timber owned by the defendants.

A chronicle of the pertinent events of the litigation is as follows:(1) On April 20, 1959, amended complaints were served on the defendants’ attorneys.(2) On May 29, 1959,…