Manhattan Brass & Manufacturing Co. v. Thompson
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon the report of a referee. This action was brought upon a promissory note and also to recover for goods alleged to have been sold to defendant.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon the report of a referee. This action was brought upon a promissory note and also to recover for goods alleged to have been sold to defendant. The referee found the following facts, substantially: That on or about the 14th day of November, 1870, the defendant signed and delivered to her husband, George W. Thompson, who was at the time carrying on the business of manufacturing and selling mechanical atmospheric lamps, an instrument in writing,…
1Opinion of the Court
Church, Ch. J.
As no opinion was delivered below we cannot know the grounds upon which the court affirmed the judgment. The case, in some of its facts, is unlike many of its predecessors, where the liability of married women, upon contracts made by them, was involved. The general principles applicable to this subject have been too firmly settled by repeated adjudications to justify a reconsideration of the grounds upon which they were arrived at. The most important of these principles is, that the statutes of 1848-49 and 1860-62, did not operate to remove the general disability of married…
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