Blake v. Blake

DlGGiNS, J.,

Plaintiff brought an action in assumpsit against defendant on a prenuptial verbal contract to which action defendant filed preliminary objections based on the Act of June 8, 1893, P. L. 344, which, while granting to married women the right to sue and be sued, provides, inter alia, that a husband may not sue her except in a proceeding for divorce or in a proceeding to protect or recover his separate property.

The record discloses that prior to the marriage of the parties to this suit, defendant wife was indebted *225to her brother, Arthur H. Rothwell, Jr., in the sum of $1,405 and she…