Brown v. Willowbrook Brick & Tile Co.

This suit is brought by a married woman to annul a lease of her sep1 arate property. She signed two such instruments, one five days after the other; the second being a substitute for the first. The suit is to annul both contracts, on the ground that their effect was to hypothecate or incumber the woman’s separate property, and to bind and obligate her personally for her husband’s debt or a debt of the marital community.

The defendant corporation is in the hands of a receiver. Five stockholders intervened and joined in the defense. They are also creditors of the corporation and indorsers on the…