Davidson v. Woodward
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
■ Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The appeal in this case is taken from a decree ordering the specific performance of a contract to sell land, made by the appellant James D. Davidson. One of the grounds of defense to the suit was that the land was the community property of the appellants, who are husband and wife, and could not be sold without the wife’s consent. The court below found that the land was the separate property of James D. Davidson. That finding is assigned as error. The land in controversy was tide land adjoining property owned by one Wm. Laack, and which he had the preferential right to…
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