Boland v. Klink
Supreme Court of Georgia
Husband and wife. Debtor and creditor. Sales. New trial. Before Judge Crawford. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1879. Grace Boland filed her bill against Charles A. IClink, in which she alleges that on the 28th day of September, 1874, she being a married woman, the wife of A. J. Boland, owned as her separate estate a certain house and lot in the city of Columbus, to-wit: the south half of city lot number three hundred and thirteen, said property being of the value of…
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Husband and wife. Debtor and creditor. Sales. New trial. Before Judge Crawford. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1879. Grace Boland filed her bill against Charles A. IClink, in which she alleges that on the 28th day of September, 1874, she being a married woman, the wife of A. J. Boland, owned as her separate estate a certain house and lot in the city of Columbus, to-wit: the south half of city lot number three hundred and thirteen, said property being of the value of three thousand dollars; that on the 28th of September, 1874, her husband having purchased from defendant a stock of liquors,…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Justice.
1. What matters it that there was an effort to sell to the husband if he was unable to give the required security, and if the wife stepped in and made the purchase, either directly or through the husband as her agent, she giving the security and obtaining title to the property ? It is just the same as if no sale to the husband had been contemplated. It is in vain to urge that a married woman has no use for a barroom or a drinking saloon. Nobody has use for such an establishment, except to make money out of it; and married women, as the law now stands, may invest their money…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Georgia Insurance & Trust Co. v. OliverSupreme Court of Georgia · 1846
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- McDonald v. Bluthenthal & BickartSupreme Court of Georgia · 1903