Nash v. George
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Nacogdoches. The petition alleged that one Mary Noble, now MaryiNash, wife of Cooper B. Nasii, was in 1840 indebted to Jonas-Ilarvey in tiie sum of seven hundred and nineteen dollars, and that in consideration thereof she executed her promissory note, whereby she promised to pay the said Jonas Ilarvey or bearer the said sum of seven hundred and nineteen dollars, and that by means thereof the saitl Mary Noble, now Mary Nash, and her husband became liable, to pay…
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Appeal from Nacogdoches. The petition alleged that one Mary Noble, now MaryiNash, wife of Cooper B. Nasii, was in 1840 indebted to Jonas-Ilarvey in tiie sum of seven hundred and nineteen dollars, and that in consideration thereof she executed her promissory note, whereby she promised to pay the said Jonas Ilarvey or bearer the said sum of seven hundred and nineteen dollars, and that by means thereof the saitl Mary Noble, now Mary Nash, and her husband became liable, to pay to the said Jonas Harvey or hearer tiie said sum of money, according to tiie tenor and effect of tiie said note; but.…
1Opinion of the Court
Hemphill, Ch. 3.
If the defendant Mary was a single woman at the execution of the note, there can bo no quest ion of the correctness of the j udgment, restricted, as it is in ils operation exclusively to the separate properly of the wife. That ihe husband is not liable for the debts of the wife contracted before marriage was held in several cases decided at the last term at Austin. (Calla*119han v. Patterson and Wife; Howard and Wife v. North.) Nor is he made liable by this judgment. It can be enforced only against the wife’s individual property. It does not lie with the appellants to complain of…
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