Toof v. Brewer
Mississippi Supreme Court
Krom the chancery court of Marshall county. How. B. T. Kimbrough, Chancellor. Toof and others, appellants, were complainants in the court below; Mrs. Brewer and another, appellees (husband and wife) were defendants there. The suit was an attachment in chancery ; the court below sustained defendant’s demurrer to the bill -of complaint and dismissed the suit. The complainants appealed to the supreme court.
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Krom the chancery court of Marshall county. How. B. T. Kimbrough, Chancellor. Toof and others, appellants, were complainants in the court below; Mrs. Brewer and another, appellees (husband and wife) were defendants there. The suit was an attachment in chancery ; the court below sustained defendant’s demurrer to the bill -of complaint and dismissed the suit. The complainants appealed to the supreme court. In 1882 and 1883 Mrs. Brewer and her husband were farming in Arkansas, where they resided, as partners and purchased supplies upon credit from Toof and others, merchants of Memphis,…
1Opinion of the Court
CoopeR, O. J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
By tbe Code of 1880 all disabilities of married women were-removed, and with us they have equal power with a feme sole to acquire and own property, to convey it, to make all sorts of contracts, and to sue and be sued. We are no longer concerned! about tbe separate estates in equity, or separate statutory estates of married women, nor tbe circumstances, extent, or manner in wbicb they may be charged. There is therefore no public policy of tbe state wbicb will preclude tbe enforcement here of any valid contract made in another state by a married…
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