Warburton v. White
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. This case involves the title to a lot, of land in the city of Tacoma, in the State of Washington. The pertinent facts presenting the controversy are as follows: Prior to 1877, Eli G. Bacon and Sophia D. Bacon were husband and wife and citizens and residents of the then Territory of Washington.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. This case involves the title to a lot, of land in the city of Tacoma, in the State of Washington. The pertinent facts presenting the controversy are as follows: Prior to 1877, Eli G. Bacon and Sophia D. Bacon were husband and wife and citizens and residents of the then Territory of Washington. In the year named, Bacon, the husband, with community funds, that is, with money acquired after his marriage with his wife, Sophia D. Bacon, purchased the real estate in question and took title thereto in his own name, the property being used as the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
The law of the Territory of Washington approved Novem ber 14, 1879, provided that in case of intestacy the share of a deceased husband or wife, in community property, should pass to the legal issue of the intestate, and in default of such issue should go to the surviving husband or wife, as the case might be. It is undoubted that if the decision of this cause is to be controlled by this enactment, there is no error in the record.
The error asserted is predicated on the claim that, under the laws of the Territory of Washington existing at'the time the property was bought, there was in fact no…
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