Eng v. Stein

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying § 25-215(D) and holding that a judgment could not bind a wife or the couple’s community because the plaintiff sued only the husband on a community obligation
• “The contract which forms 6 the basis of this action is presumably a community obligation.”
• “The statute refers to a [c]ause of action being brought against both husband and wife.”
• “The cause of action in this case did not arise when the contract was formed but only after the contract had been breached.”
• both 27 8 See Gaethje v. Gaethje, 441 P.2d 579, 583 (Ariz. Ct. App. 1968) (indicating 28 “community property decisions” of states like California can be persuasive in “determining the community property law of [Arizona]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).