Carratt v. Carratt

Citations

• 32 Wash. 517
• 73 P. 481
• 1903 Wash. LEXIS 450

Syllabus

<p>HUSBAND AND WIFE-SEPARATE PROPERTY-FORFEITURE OF LAND GRANT-PURCHASE OF PUBLIC LANDS BY SURVIVING SPOUSE.</p> <p>The purchase by a surviving husband of lands which had been forfeited to the government by act of congress as part of the unearned grant to a railway company, under the preference right given thereby to one in possession, would give him a separate estate therein, even though the lands had been taken possession of by himself and wife, during the existence of the community, under conveyance from the railway company.</p>