Lawler v. Lawler
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court; R. E. Jeffery, Judge; Contract between husband and wife in Missouri is valid. § § 4335-4340 Digest of 1899; 176 Mo. 107; 75 S. W. 404; 92 S. W. 637; 127 S. W. 118; 68 S. W. 758. The law of the place of making will determine whether a contract has been validly entered into.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court; R. E. Jeffery, Judge; Contract between husband and wife in Missouri is valid. § § 4335-4340 Digest of 1899; 176 Mo. 107; 75 S. W. 404; 92 S. W. 637; 127 S. W. 118; 68 S. W. 758. The law of the place of making will determine whether a contract has been validly entered into. Minor on Conflict of Laws, § 72, p. 144; 124 N. W. 1042; 43 S. W. 687; Story on Conflict of Laws, § § 66, 102. A married woman may alone sue ór be sued in the courts of this State on account of her separate personal property. Kirby’s Digest, 5214, 6017. As to her separate property she may…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
Pearl Lawler brought this suit in the circuit court against John Lawler. The complaint, with formal parts omitted, is as follows:
“That she is now and was on all hereinafter mentioned dates the wife of the defendant.
“That in the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on the 14th day of September, 1908, the defendant executed and delivered to the plaintiff his certain promissory note of that date, in the sum of $1,900, due and payable one year after date, with interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum. Said note is in words and figures as follows:
‘St. Louis, Mo., September 14, 1908.
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