Campbell & Jones v. Murray
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity. Debtor and creditor. Husband and wife. Principal and agent. Deeds. Usury. Jury. Yerdict. Before A. 8. Giles, Esq., Judge fro hao vice. Houston Superior Court.
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Equity. Debtor and creditor. Husband and wife. Principal and agent. Deeds. Usury. Jury. Yerdict. Before A. 8. Giles, Esq., Judge fro hao vice. Houston Superior Court. November Term, 1877. Mary McCallie died in October, 1871, leaving Amanda L. Murray, Henrietta C. Anneker, her sisters, and A, P. Anneker and J. S. Anneker, her brothers, all in South Carolina, her heirs at law, in possession of a plantation containing fifteen hundred and nineteen acres, in Houston county, and a stock of mules and other personal property as usual on a farm. She died indebted to Campbell & Jones in five hundred…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Justice.
1. A husband farms upon land belonging to Mb wife and *95her sister, but without their consent and against their objection, intending the profits for their benefit. Does this en title him to contract debts for advances and supplies to carry on the business, and bind them or their property for the payment of such debts ? To ask the question is to answer it in the negative. 55 Penn., 386; 103 Mass., 560; 5 R. I., 376; 1 Coldw., 67. It does not appear that any profits were produced, or, if so, that they went to the ladies.
2. A conveyance of the wife’s land to secure the husband’s…
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