Schillreff v. Schillreff

Citations

• 50 Wash. 435
• 97 P. 457
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 756

Syllabus

<p>Estoppel — To Assert Title — Laches—Husband and Wipe — Community Property. A wife is estopped from asserting a community property interest in land for which her husband held a contract of purchase from a railway company, where, in 1897, the husband sold and assigned the contract to a third person who took possession and made valuable improvements, and it appears that the wife knew of the assignment and was satisfied with the money received therefrom, they being unable to complete the payments, and in subsequent divorce proceedings against her husband, she set forth a description of property owned by him without mention of this land, and made no claim thereto at that time or for many years thereafter while the purchaser was making improvements and paying for the property, nor until the railroad company issued a deed therefor to the purchaser.</p>