Phillips v. Phillips

An opinion was announced in this matter on August 5, 1969. Later a petition for rehearing was granted and the case was re-argued. The former opinion has been withdrawn and this one has been substituted therefor.

This writ of error involves a property division and support money payments in a divorce action commenced by Mrs. Phillips. When the parties were married in 1948 neither was possessed of property. Mr. Phillips was then a carpenter and with a partner was building two “speculative-type” houses in Seattle. In one sentence he gave the following capsule commentary of succeeding events:

“Well.…