Williams v. Paxton

BAKES, Justice.

The pivotal question in this appeal is whether a judgment creditor who obtained judgment jointly against a married woman and her husband, based upon obligations under a contract which both she and her husband signed for the purchase of community property, may satisfy the judgment by execution upon the married woman’s separate property.

THE FACTS

The plaintiff respondent Mary O. Williams initiated this action against the defendant appellant Harry Paxton to prevent him from executing upon her residence to satisfy a joint judgment he had obtained against her and her husband Robert…