Parke v. Case

Citations

• 113 Wash. 263
• 193 P. 688
• 1920 Wash. LEXIS 826

Syllabus

<p>Evidence (143) — Parol—Contradicting Written Instruments— Deeds. In the absence of fraud or mistake, parol evidence is inadmissible to show that an unambiguous deed of community property from a husband to his wife did not, as it purports on its face, vest the property in the wife as her separate property.</p> <p>Husband and Wife (18, 64) — Separate Estate of Wife — Community Property — Transfers and Conveyances. Where the wife’s separate property was conveyed to a trustee as security for a debt, the trustee, on payment of the debt, could not, by any form of conveyance to the husband and wife, vest the husband with a community interest in the property.</p>