Flanagan v. Grocery Co.

This is an action of debt instituted in a Justice’s Court. The warrant is in the form usual in that action. In that Court as well as in the Circuit Court, to which the case was appealed, the plaintiff in error, A. C. Flanagan, filed a plea of coverture. Over this plea, and in the face of the admitted fact that she was a married woman, in both Courts a judgment was rendered against her, and also against her husband, J. W. Flanagan. The Circuit Judge, in rendering this judgment against Mrs. Flanagan, recited, as a fact, that the debt sued for was, when created, fixed by her as a charge on her…