Dobbins v. Dexter Horton & Co.

Citations

• 62 Wash. 423
• 113 P. 1088

Syllabus

<p>Husband and Wife — Wife’s Separate Property — Personal Earnings — Agreement With Husband. The evidence sufficiently shows an agreement between husband and wife that her personal earnings after marriage should be her separate property, where it appears that the money earned by her in teaching during four years after marriage was applied in completing the purchase and improving property purchased and partly paid for by her before marriage, that the proceeds of such property were thereafter invested and reinvested by her, the husband having nothing to do with the same, under a general understanding between them at all times that it and all her earnings were her separate property.</p> <p>Same — Wife’s Separate Estate — What Constitutes. The fact that the husband joined in a note and mortgage upon real estate purchased and mostly paid for by the wife before marriage does not make the property or the proceeds therefrom community property.</p> <p>Same. Assumption by the wife of mortgage indebtedness upon real estate purchased with her separate funds does not create a community obligation or make the property community property.</p>