Forker v. Henry

Citations

• 21 Wash. 235
• 57 P. 811
• 1899 Wash. LEXIS 269

Syllabus

<p>SEPARATE ESTATE OF WIFE-HOMESTEAD ENTERED BEFORE MARRIAGE.</p> <p>A homestead settled upon and improved by a woman before marriage, who continued to reside there, together with her husband, after her marriage, and to whom a patent was issued therefor after final proof was made, is her separate property, under § 4489, Bal. Code, which defines the separate property of a wife as her property and pecuniary rights “at the time of her marriage, or afterwards acquired by gift, devise or inheritance, with the rents, issues and profits thereof.”</p>