Ballard v. Slyfield

Citations

• 47 Wash. 174
• 91 P. 642
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 733

Syllabus

<p>Husband and Wife—Community Property—Wife’s Separate Property—Evidence—Sufficiency. Findings to the-effect that certain real estate was separate property of the wife are sustained by the' evidence, where it appears that it was purchased in 1875, largely with funds inherited by the wife, and the husband declared that any community property used in its purchase'was intended as a gift to the wife, so that the property could be held by her separately; that the wife twice mortgaged the property, finally conveyed it receiving the full consideration, did not include it in her inventory of her husband’s estate, and her acts for twenty-five years since her husband’s death were inconsistent with any community claim, and no action was begun by the children to recover an interest until more than six years after the youngest attained majority.</p>