7 Wash. 306 | Wash. | 1893
Lead Opinion
The opinion of the court was delivered by
A somewhat cai’eful examination of the voluminous complaint filed in the action, which it is claimed on the part of the relator he is entitled to have transferred to the county of Kitsap for trial, satisfies fis that the substantial object of such suit is to enforce a trust and compel an accounting on the part of the relator in favor of the plaintiffs in said suit. And such being the fact, we are of the opinion that the conten
It follows that the action which the superior court of King county is about to proceed in is a transitory one, and that the application of the relator to have it removed for trial to the county of his residence should have been granted, unless the fact that the defendant Maurice Mc-Micken, and perhaps one of the defendant corporations, were residents of the county of King is sufficient to deprive the relator of his right to thus have the case tried in his own county. Under the allegations of the complaint in the action neither of these defendants seems to be a necessary party. They may be proper parties to the action so far as some remote questions of relief are concerned, but they are in no sense necessary to a proper determination of the suit as against the principal defendant, the relator herein. Such being the case, the plaintiffs should not be allowed to deprive the substantial defendant of his right to have the case determined at home by so joining
Stiles, Scott and Anders, JJ., concur.
Concurrence Opinion
(concurring). I have uniformly dissented to the majority opinions in all cases of this class, believing that, under the constitution, this court had no jurisdiction, and therefore no authority, to issue the writ, as it was neither in its appellate or revisory jurisdiction; but as the other members .of the court have as uniformly, and, in so many cases, held to the contrary, that it seems to me to have become the established law of this state that the court will take jurisdiction in this kind of a case, I do not feel justified in dissenting further, and as I agree with the majority that this action is a transitory one, I concur in the result.