Crawford v. Morris

The deceased husband of the defendant administratrix became surety on a note, which she rejected as a claim on the ground that all his property was of the community sort and that, under familiar decisions of this court, *289his debt as surety not joined in by her was his separate liability. In the latter contention the administratrix was correct, but, refusing to recognize the claim against his half after death, she was in error. The lower court correctly applied the rule of Columbia Nat. Bank v. Embree, 2 Wash. 331, 26 Pac. 257, that, while the community property is immune from a separate debt…