Andrews v. Andrews
Supreme Court of Washington
199 P. 981 (1921)
Relevant factsFree
A.D. (plaintiff) and his wife cared for his father Joshua for years under an alleged oral agreement that Joshua would leave A.D. his entire estate in exchange; Joshua later remarried and executed an invalid will favoring A.D. anyway, and when A.D. sued to enforce the oral contract, the trial court excluded his wife's corroborating testimony as an interested party, since any resulting property would be community property in which she held a half interest.
IssueFree
Whether property obtained by a married person through an oral agreement to devise property by will is community property.