State Ex Rel. Verd v. Superior Court

— The Standard Lumber & Manufacturing Company is a Washington corporation with its registered office and sawmill at Carlsborg, Clallam county, Washington. George W. Pankratz is president and manager of the corporation. He owned the mill at Carlsborg prior to incorporation and, both before and since the incorporation, has made it a practice to go to Seattle to sell lumber, the product of the mill, to Wes E. Verd, the relator, and perhaps to others.

On April 5, 1947, he called at Verd’s office in Seattle and, on behalf of the corporation, agreed to sell and Verd agreed to buy certain lumber…