Warburton v. White

Citations

• 176 U.S. 484
• 20 S. Ct. 404
• 44 L. Ed. 555
• 1900 U.S. LEXIS 2794

Syllabus

<p>The statute of Washington Territory of November 14, 1879, providing that one half of community property of husband and wife should be subject to the testamentary disposition of the husband or wife, subject respectively to the community debts, and, in default of such testamentary disposition that the share of the deceased husband or wife should descend to his or her issue, and if there was no such issue-should pass to the survivor, does no violation to the Constitution of the United States, when applied to such community property held under the statute of, that Territory of November 14, 1873, which provided that property acquired after marriage by either husband or wife, except such as might be acquired by gift, bequest, devise or descent, should be common property, of which the husband should have the entire management and control, with the like absolute power of disposition as of his own separate estate.</p>