Bochterle, Et Vir v. Fla. Milk Co., Inc.

This appeal is from an order of the Circuit Court appointing, without notice, a receiver pendente lite of a coffee shop and dining room alleged to be the “separate statutory estate” of a married woman, the suit being to subject the property to pay for milk and dairy products purchased by the married woman for use in the coffee shop and dining room business operated by her.

“A wife’s separate estate is an equitable estate in property the legal title to which is in some other person for her benefit. In equity such separate estate may be subjected to the payment of the debts of the wife, if not…