Corbett v. Sloan

Citations

• 52 Wash. 1
• 99 P. 1025
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 1064

Syllabus

<p>Husband and Wife — Community Property — Gifts—Fraudulent Conveyance — Evidence—Sufficiency. It sufficiently appears, within the rule casting the burden of proof upon the wife in case of a gift from the husband, that real property standing in the name of the wife was her separate property, where there was nothing to impeach the testimony of the parties that the money with which it was purchased was secured by the husband for personal injuries sustained, and given by him to his wife, and the deed taken in her name, upon legal advice, in order to effect a gift thereof to her, in the absence of creditors of the husband at the time the gift was made, although the husband paid taxes for two years and some interest, and the wife’s deed was not at once recorded.</p>