Vilas v. Bushnell

Citations

• 107 Wash. 331

Syllabus

<p>Witnesses (44)—Competency—Transactions With Person Since Deceased. Evidence that a written statement given by deceased to witness had been lost, is not inadmissible as testimony of a transaction had with the deceased, where it was introduced to establish the existence of the contract.</p> <p>Husband and Wife (60, 65)—Gifts (8)—Community Property— Evidence—Sufficiency. Evidence that a husband delivered stock to his wife with the intent of making a gift, and that she received and continued to keep it in her possession and exercised and claimed ownership, sustains the burden of proving that it was voluntarily made and that the stock became her separate property.</p>