Donovan v. Olsen

Citations

• 47 Wash. 441
• 92 P. 276
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 782

Syllabus

<p>Husband and Wife—Separate Property of Wife—Evidence— Sufficiency. Testimony of a wife that property acquired in her name soon after her marriage was paid for in part hy $500 received hy her hy gift, and in part hy money saved from her personal earnings, is not sufficient to show that community property entered into the purchase, but it will be inferred that the personal earnings were acquired before marriage, where she was permitted by counsel to state positively the ultimate facts that no part of it was community property and that the husband had no interest therein, and none of it was acquired by their joint efforts, and that he had no property and earned no wages up to that time; and the fact of his doing some work on the property is immaterial.</p>