Wallace v. Watson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Saline Cbancery Court; J. P. Henderson, Chancellor; 1. The money on deposit is shown by the evidence to belong to Mrs. A. B. Watson.
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Appeal from Saline Cbancery Court; J. P. Henderson, Chancellor; 1. The money on deposit is shown by the evidence to belong to Mrs. A. B. Watson. The earnings of a married woman arising from her services done and performed on her account become her separate property. 47 Ark. 485. The wife did not permit her husband to have the control or management of the time deposits and she never parted with her title, for the presumption is that the husband was acting as trustee or agent of the wife. Kirby’s Digest, § 5227; 84 Ark. 355. Her right to same is not prejudiced by her failure to schedule.…
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, J.,
(after stating the facts). The only issue on this appeal is whether or not the money on deposit in the banks in the name of A. B. Watson at the time of her death was her property or the property of J. B. Watson, her husband. The learned chancellor rendered an elaborate opinion which shows that he has thoroughly considered every phase of the testimony presented by this record. Concerning the title to the money on deposit in the banks in the name of appellee’s wife at the time of her death he says: “By the conduct of the wife and the plaintiff all the moneys deposited in the wife’s…
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