" `By the community property law of this state... the legislature did not create an entity or a juristic person separate and apart from the spouses composing the marital community.'"

—holding that the community is not a distinct entity or juristic person and that all community property is owned by both spouses equally

It was reasoned that since at common law an action founded upon tort for unliquidated damages did not survive the death of the wrongdoer, this action does not survive.

At common law, when a corporation dissolved it ceased to exist for all purposes and therefore could not sue or be sued. 16A William Meade Fletcher, Fletcher Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations § 8144 (rev. vol. 2003

The law of Washington is well settled that a husband and wife have vested, equal, and undivided interests in community property.

—plaintiff urged the tort cause of action survived the death of the tortfeasor spouse because the "community" still existed, as reflected in the administration of all community property interests upon the death of the tort feasor; the court rejected the argument, holding essentially there was no entity established by the community property statutes, but even accepting the …

—the court held a tort cause of action did not survive against the community after the death of the tortfeasor spouse.

The debts of the terminated corporation were extinguished, its real property reverted to the grantor, and its personal property escheated.