Yake v. Pugh

Citations

• 13 Wash. 78
• 42 P. 528
• 1895 Wash. LEXIS 53

Syllabus

<p>ADMISSION OF COMPETENT AND INCOMPETENT TESTIMONY — MOTION TO STRIKE — PERSONAL EARNINGS OF WIFE—WHEN SEPARATE PROPERTY — GIFT OF HUSBAND.</p> <p>A motion to strike out all the testimony relating to a particular subject is properly denied when some of it is clearly competent.</p> <p>The personal earnings of the wife, derived from keeping boarders and dressmaking, under an agreement of her husband that all she made should be' her separate property, are thereby divested of their character as community property, at least in so far as subsequent debtors are concerned.</p> <p>The taking possession by a wife with the consent of her husband as her separate property of articles purchased with money which she has earned and which it has previously been agreed between them shall be her separate property, constitutes a gift of said articles to her, even if the technical, legal title to the money earned has not passed to her.</p>