Gulledge Bros. Lumber Co. v. Wenatchee Land Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
After the cause was remanded on tbe former appeal, defendant amended its answer, setting up that under the laws of Washington plaintiff was deprived of tbe right to maintain any action in the courts of that state or elsewhere. From an order, Holt, J., denying a motion of W. T. Gulledge and B. E. Gulledge, as receivers of plaintiff corporation, to be substituted as plaintiffs in the action, they appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
This action was brought in 1909 to recover damages for the alleged breach of contract for the sale of certain timber upon lands in the state of Washington. The cause was heretofore before the court upon plaintiff’s demurrer to one of the defenses set up in the answer. 111 Minn. 418, 127 N. W. 395, 923. After the cause was remanded on the former appeal, defendant amended its answer, and, among other things, set up the want of capacity of plaintiff to sue, alleging that by the laws of the state of Washington, under which plaintiff was incorporated, it was prohibited from commencing an action in…
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