J. E. Simmons & Associates, Inc. v. Christian

Head, Presiding Justice.

1. A wife may contract, but she can not “bind her separate estate by any contract of suretyship.” Code § 53-503. “A deed given by a married woman, in pursuance of a scheme by which she pledges her individual property as security for the debt of another, is void in toto. Civil Code (1910), § 3007 [now § 53-503]; Central Bank &c. Corp. v. Almand, 135 Ga. 231 (69 SE 111); Summers v. Lee, 10 Ga. App. 441 (73 SE 602).” Lee v. Johnston, 162 Ga. 560 (2a) (134 SE 166); Williamson v. Walker, 183 Ga. 320, 325 (188 SE 346); Cleaveland v. LaGrange Banking &c. Co., 187 Ga. 65, 69…