State ex rel. H. G. Wells Lumber Co. v. Superior Court

On April 28, 1920, the relator, H. G. Wells Lumber Company, as plaintiff, began an action in the superior court of King county against the Western American Company, as defendant, to recover in damages for the breach of three several contracts to deliver lumber. At the time it appeared in the action, the defendant filed an affidavit of merits and demanded that the cause be transferred to Grays Harbor county for trial; averring in its application that it was a resident of, and was transacting business in, Grays Harbor county; that it was not transacting business, and had no office for the…