Guill v. Hanny

The principal question arising in this case is whether the revised' laws of 1874 have changed the doctrine established in Brownell v. Dixon, 37 Ill. 198, and approved in Wortman v. Price, 47 Ill. 22, and Wilson et al. v. Loomis et al. 55 Ill. 352, under the act of 1861, in relation to the subject whether the continued earnings of the husband can be appropriated to the increase of the wife’s capital at the expense of his creditors.

The facts are that the property levied on, consisting of the contents of a wagon shop, by the creditors of Bichard Hanny in July, 1876, was replevied by the appellee…