La Selle v. Woolery

Citations

• 14 Wash. 70
• 44 P. 115
• 1896 Wash. LEXIS 309

Syllabus

<p>CONFLICT OF laws — INDIVIDUAL DEBT CONTRACTED IN ANOTHER STATE — ENFORCEMENT AGAINST COMMUNITY PROPERTY.</p> <p>A judgment rendered in this state upon a debt created in the State of Wisconsin, which, by the laws of that state, was the separate individual debt of the husband, and enforcible only against his separate property, cannot be satisfied out of community real property acquired by husband and wife in this state long after the debt arose. (La Selle v. Woolery, 11 Wash. 337, overruled).</p> <p>The law of the place where the contract was made must govern in determining the character, construction and validity of such contract; while the law of the place where suit is instituted upon the contract governs as to the nature, extent and form of the remedy.</p>