Griffin v. Ragan
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Chickasaw County. !Hon. W. D. Frazee, Chancellor. The facts of this case are sufficiently set out in the opinion ■of the court. The error assigned is the dissolving of the injunction on •defendants’ motion.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Chickasaw County. !Hon. W. D. Frazee, Chancellor. The facts of this case are sufficiently set out in the opinion ■of the court. The error assigned is the dissolving of the injunction on •defendants’ motion. A sale under a judgment rendered against husband and wife on a note made by them during marriage is void. 25 "Miss., 22; 33 Miss., 550. A married woman can only be ■sued at law on such contracts as the statute enables her to make. 7 S. & M., 64, 68, 83, 84; 9 S. & M., 435; 33 Miss., 550. She can only bind her income for the debts of her husband. 44 Miss.,…
1Opinion of the Court
SiMRALL, C., J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Ragan & Dickey recovered judgment before a justice of the peace against A. A. Griffin, for $154.33, besides costs of suit. In payment of this judgment Belle Griffin joined with her husband, A. A. Griffin, in an order or inland bill of exchange-drawn on one J.. M. Scott, who-accepted it. The payees, Ragan & Dickey, sued the drawers and the acceptor on the-pajier, and recovered judgment by nil elicit.
The sheriff levied an execution, issued on the judgment, on the property of Belle Griffin. The-original indebtedness was-exclusively personal to…
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