Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Richey & Gilbert Co.

While this is a somewhat extraordinary case, both in common and legal parlance, it involves a primary question not entirely novel here.

In Rader v. Stubblefield, 43 Wash. 334, 86 Pac. 560, 10 Ann. Cas. 20, this court held, in accordance with the almost universal rule, that a citizen of this state, domiciled here, can be enjoined from prosecuting an action in another state against a citizen of this state, upon a proper showing of the facts, and any such injunction is not an attempt to control the action of a foreign court; that the writ of injunction is issued in a proceeding in personam…