Hubbard v. Pickbell

Citations

• 115 Wash. 489
• 197 P. 610

Syllabus

<p>Husband and Wife (65)—Gifts (4, 6)—Community Property—■ Delivery of Bonds—Sufficiency. A husband’s delivery to his wife of bonds purchased with community funds, with a direction to keep them as they were hers, sufficiently showed a parting of dominion over the bonds with a present design that title should pass from donor to donee as a gift.</p> <p>Same (65)—Gifts (4, 6). The fact that a wife, to whom a gift of bonds was made by her husband, placed them in a strong-box where the individual valuables of either and the community property of both were kept would not of itself overthrow the presumption from the evidence that she assumed absolute control over the bonds.</p>