Foy v. Pacific Power & Light Co.

Citations

• 105 Wash. 525
• 178 P. 452
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 992

Syllabus

<p>Husband and Wipe (21)—Wife’s Separate Estate—Earnings. A married woman may receive tbe wages for her personal service, earned under a contract made and performed during coverture, when such earnings were her separate property.</p> <p>Parties (51)—Real Party in Interest—Objections — Waiver. An objection that a married woman is not the real party in interest, in her action to recover for wages upon her contract made during coverture is waived if not made when the defendant first appears in the action.</p> <p>Husband and Wife (21, 23-1, 60)—Wife’s Separate Estate— Earnings—Evidence—Sufficiency. Where a married man, employed in a pumping plant by a city, made an arrangement whereby the city was to employ and pay his wife wages for assisting, and thereafter receipted for his own wages and made no claim for hers, there was sufficient evidence to support a finding that her wages were her separate property.</p>