PERHAM FRUIT CORPORATION v. CUNARD WHITE STAR

Nos. 368-371.

84 F.Supp. 354 (1949)

PERHAM FRUIT CORPORATION et al. v. CUNARD WHITE STAR, Limited, et al.

United States District Court E. D. Washington, S. D.

May 14, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest Falk, Yakima, Washington, for plaintiffs.

Bogle, Bogle & Gates and Claude E. Wakefield, Seattle, Washington, for defendant Canadian Pac. R. Co.

Hart, Spencer, McCulloch & Rockwood, Portland, Oregon, and Brown & Hawkins, Yakima, Washington, for defendant Spokane, P. & S. R. Co.

A. J. Clynch, Seattle, Washington, for defendant Great Northern R. Co.

Hamblen, Gilbert & Brooke, Spokane, Washington, for defendant Union Pac. R. Co.

Frank J. McKevitt, Spokane, Washington, Dean H. Eastman and Roscoe Krier, Seattle, Washington, for defendant Northern Pac. R. Co.

Clyde C. Rowan, Spokane, Washington, for defendant Canadian Nat. Rys.

Merritt, Summers & Bucey, Seattle, Washington, for defendant Cunard White Star, Limited.


DRIVER, Chief Judge.

The question presented is whether this Court has jurisdiction of defendant, Cunard White Star Limited, a British corporation. The above actions, and two others by different plaintiffs in which the same corporation was named as a defendant, were commenced in State Court and removed for diversity. In each case, summons was served at Seattle, Washington, upon Burchard & Fisken, Inc., a Washington corporation, as agent of the British corporation...

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