Pitts v. Temple Banking Co.

1. Where a husband purchases land with funds belonging to the separate estate of his wife, and the wife knowingly permits the legal title to remain in the husband for many years during which the husband holds out and deals with the property as his own, and credit is extended to him on the faith of such ownership, and the creditor obtains judgment, causes execution to be levied on the land, and at *227the sale thereof the creditor purchases the land, taking a sheriff’s deed, and nothing is done by the wife to disclose her secret equity or to claim such right, the wife will be estopped from…