Graves v. Columbia Underwriters

Citations

• 93 Wash. 196
• 160 P. 436
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 1184

Syllabus

<p>Husband and Wife — Community Property — Joint Note — Separate Property of Wife — Improvement—Community Debt. Money borrowed by the note of husband and wife, secured by mortgage on his wife’s separate property, and used in the payment of taxes and the preservation of such property, is not a community fund, and does not give the community any interest in the land which could be subjected to the lien of a community judgment; in view of Rem. 1915 Code, §§ 5915-5917, defining separate and community property, placing the latter under the control of the husband, and providing that the wife’s separate property shall not be subject to the debts or contracts of the husband, but only to her control in the same manner that the husband controls property belonging to him.</p>