Case Name: ROBERT F. BELL, Appellant, v. ANNIE E. WYMAN et al., Respondents
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1905-08-10
Citations: 147 Cal. 514
Docket Number: L. A. No. 1301
Parties: ROBERT F. BELL, Appellant, v. ANNIE E. WYMAN et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 147
Pages: 514–522

Head Matter:
[L. A. No. 1301.
In Bank.
August 10, 1905.]
ROBERT F. BELL, Appellant, v. ANNIE E. WYMAN et al., Respondents.
Action to Quiet Title—Husband and Wipe—Devise to Wipe—Separate Property—Declaration in Will—Construction op Law.— Property devised to the wife is her separate property. In an action by an assignee of the husband to quiet title to an interest in land devised to the wife, as being community property earned by the services of the wife, where it appears to be declared in the will that the devise was not intended as a payment for services, but from a desire to give the devisee the preference, no strained construction of the law should be made to defeat the intent expressed in the will.
Id.—Nonsuit Properly Granted—Construction op Evidence.—Held, that the evidence for the plaintiff cannot be reasonably construed as showing an intention of the testator other than that expressed in the will, and that it shows that defendant’s title rests upon devise, and that defendant’s motion for a nonsuit was properly granted. [Beatty, C. J., Henshaw, J., and Lorigan, J., dissenting.]
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Santa Barbara County. W. S. Day, Judge.
The main facts are stated in the opinion rendered in Department Two, affirmed by the. court in Bank. Further facts are stated in the dissenting opinion of Beatty, C. J.
Canfield & Starbueh, for Appellant;
Charles U. Armstrong, for Respondents.

Opinion:
THE COURT.
Upon further consideration of this case upon rehearing we adhere to the views expressed in the opinion heretofore rendered-in Department Two. For the reasons therein given the judgment is affirmed.
Shaw, J., and Angellotti, J., concurred.