Gordon v. Gordon

OPINION ON DENIAL OF PETITION FOR REHEARING

On receipt of Mr. Gordon’s petition for a rehearing, mine was the only vote that we reconsider before letting our opinion stand. On considering the supporting brief and on further reflection of the unusual circumstances, there is reason to believe that our decision probably is erroneous as a matter of law, and the district court was eminently correct in accepting the legislature’s statutory law in preference to indulging in the doing of equity.

A unanimous decision of the Washington Supreme Court comes close to the circumstances of this case. In that…