Curry v. Catlin
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from Superior Court, King County. Action by Lizzie M. Curry and husband to enjoin an execution issued on a judgment obtained by Jerome Catlin against the husband, John M. Curry, rendered upon a note executed by said John M. Curry in his individual capacity to said Catlin.
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Appeal from Superior Court, King County. Action by Lizzie M. Curry and husband to enjoin an execution issued on a judgment obtained by Jerome Catlin against the husband, John M. Curry, rendered upon a note executed by said John M. Curry in his individual capacity to said Catlin. The complaint alleges that the land levied upon is the separate property of Lizzie M. Curry and was her separate property at the time the judgment was rendered, and that said execution is not a lien on said land. Another action, consolidated with the above for trial, was instituted by Jerome Catlin against Lizzie M.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Stiles, J.
— -The record in this case seems to us to disclose very clearly that the claim of the appellant Lizzie M. *497Curry, that the land which was sought to be subjected to respondent Catlin’s judgment was her separate property, was an afterthought, probably suggested as a means of evading the payment of the judgment mentioned. John Curry, while he was a single man, in 1886, procured of the Northern Pacific Eailroad Company a personal contract for the conveyance of certain lands in King county, in consideration of the payment of $689, $68.90 of which…
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