Ankeney v. Hannon
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOU* -HERN DISTRICT OP OHIO. This was a suit in equity to charge the separate estate of a married woman with the payment of certain notes of which her husband was one of the makers, such estate having been acquired subsequently to their execution.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOU* -HERN DISTRICT OP OHIO. This was a suit in equity to charge the separate estate of a married woman with the payment of certain notes of which her husband was one of the makers, such estate having been acquired subsequently to their execution. It arose out of. the following facts: On the 25th of March, 1880, Joseph E. Hannon, Clara M. Hannon, and William H. Hannon executed their three promissory notes, aggregating $14,969.81, dated at Xenia, Ohio, and payable to the order of Joseph E. Hannon, one of the makers. They were…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
At common law, a married woman is disabled ¡from executing any promissory notes, either alone or in conjunction with her husband. A note or other contract signed by both is the obligation of the husband alone. And in the absence of legislation a separate estate to her can only be created by conveyance, devise or contract, and remedies against such estate can be enforced only in equity. At the time Mrs. Hannon signed the notes in controversy, married women in Ohio were subject to their common law disabilities, except with respect to certain statutory contracts, and had' power to charge their…
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