Bridges v. McKenna
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore city. The bill in this case, filed on the 28th of September 1855, by Catharine McKenna, a feme covert, in her own name, alleges that she has been for several months, with her own capital and by the credit and kindness of her own friends, in her own name, and as a feme sole, carrying on a grocery business in a store at the comer of North and Baltimore streets, in the city of Baltimore; that by virtue of a fieri facias, issued upon a…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore city. The bill in this case, filed on the 28th of September 1855, by Catharine McKenna, a feme covert, in her own name, alleges that she has been for several months, with her own capital and by the credit and kindness of her own friends, in her own name, and as a feme sole, carrying on a grocery business in a store at the comer of North and Baltimore streets, in the city of Baltimore; that by virtue of a fieri facias, issued upon a judgment for $613.83, against Peter McKenna, her husband, at the suit of Bridges & Woods, the appellants, the goods,…
1Opinion of the Court
Bartol, I.,
delivered the opinion of this court.
An examination of the facts of this case, as disclosed by the proof, has satisfied us, that the goods and chattels seized andtaken under the writ offieri facias were the property of the complainant, Catharine, held by her to her sole and separate use, under the provisions of the 8th section of the Act of 1842, ch. 293.
The execution was issued at the suit of the appellants to recover a debt due them from Peter McKenna, the husband of the complainant. The right of property in the wife being, in our opinion, clearly established by the evidence, the…
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