79 Wash. 210 | Wash. | 1914
Plaintiff began this action asking for certain relief, alleging the following ultimate facts; that, in the year 1896, the legal title of certain lands, 400 acres of timber land and about 260 acres of pasture or agricultural land in Skagit county, stood in the name of the First National Bank of Mt. Vernon; that he had a right to a transfer of the legal title by payment to the bank of $8,000; that the defendant
The defendant is a resident of King county, and upon the commencement of this action, filed a motion for a change of venue to King county, which was granted. This is the first error assigned. An action for an accounting or an action to declare a trust in lands, is a transitory action, and the court did not abuse its discretion when it made the order changing the venue of the action from Skagit county to King county. State ex rel. Scougale v. Superior Court, 55 Wash. 328, 104 Pac. 607, 133 Am. St. 1030.
As for the merits of the case, we have read the record and are unable to say that the trial judge erred in rendering a judgment for the defendant. It might be that a judgment could have been rendered in favor of either party with some reasonable assurance that it was right, but this is saying no more than that plaintiff has not sustained the burden of proof.
Crow, C. J., Ellis, Main, and Gose, JJ., concur.