Russell v. Long
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from' Dallas Circuit Court. Tiie plaintiff is a married woman. Her husband, Martin Russell, is a farmer. He owns no real estate, but rents land from year to year,.which be cultivates. The'plaintiff performs tlie ordinary duties of a housewife without the aid of hired help, and she generally assists her husband in planting and gathering corn, loading and stacking bay, etc.; but slie_ lias at no time been engaged in any business separate from her bus-band.
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Appeal from' Dallas Circuit Court. Tiie plaintiff is a married woman. Her husband, Martin Russell, is a farmer. He owns no real estate, but rents land from year to year,.which be cultivates. The'plaintiff performs tlie ordinary duties of a housewife without the aid of hired help, and she generally assists her husband in planting and gathering corn, loading and stacking bay, etc.; but slie_ lias at no time been engaged in any business separate from her bus-band. They bave thus lived and labored for tbe last ten years. In tbe year I860 tlie plaintiff’s father gave her a cow and a bog. She…
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, J.
i. husband and wile: property of -wife: increase. — I. By the common law not only the increase óf the cows, hut the cows themselves, under the facts found, would have heen the property of the husband and ,, , ,. . , , . . liable for his debts. But the legislature of this , . °, state has taken a wide departure Irani the common law upon the subject of the rights of married women to. hold property independent of the husband and his creditors. A married woman may own in her own right real and personal property, ancl manage, sell, convey, ancl devise the same by will to the same extent ancl in…
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