HART v. PEOPLES NAT'L BANK

No. 45594.

91 Wn.2d 197 (1978)

588 P.2d 204

CERTIFICATION FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT IN WILLIAM L. HART, Appellee, v. PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK OF WASHINGTON, Appellant. WILLIAM L. HART, Appellee, v. JAMES E. SMITH, Appellant.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

December 21, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Allen Babcock, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Ronald R. Glancz, Department of Justice, Sax & MacIver, John C. Coart, and James P. Donohue, for appellants.

Slade Gorton, Attorney General, and Richard A. Heath, Assistant, for appellee.

Rex B. Stratton and Mark M. Hough on behalf of the Community Banks of Washington, amici curiae.


ROSELLINI, J.

Do the words "city or town" as used in RCW 30.40.020 include unincorporated communities such as Basin City in Franklin County, Washington?

The United States Comptroller of the Currency approved an application by the Peoples National Bank of Seattle, Washington, to relocate in Basin City, an unincorporated area, a branch which it had established at Mesa, an incorporated town in the same county. His action was challenged by the Washington State...

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