Wright
Wright v. Phillips
Opinion
Lead Opinion
James, J.
Separate demurrers of the defendants, interposed to the complaint of the plaintiff, were sustained and the court refused leave to plaintiff to amend. The judgment of dismissal followed, from which plaintiff has taken his appeal.
Plaintiff alleged that on the twenty-sixth day of November, 1915, the Washington Motor Sales Company, a corporation, was by a judgment of the superior court of the state of Washington declared to be insolvent, and that an order was made appointing plaintiff as receiver and that he duly qualified and has ever since been acting as such. The averment next appears that the receiver duly obtained leave to bring this action from the court appointing him. It was alleged that the defendants were husband and wife; that on or about the third day of April, 1918, defendant Sarah A. Phillips was indebted to the corporation mentioned on account of a stock subscription in the sum of five thousand dollars; that on the 3d of April, 1918, plaintiff commenced an action in the superior court of the county of San Diego, state of California, against the said Sarah A. Phillips (who was at that time Sarah A. Donovan), which action was based upon the stock subscription contract,…