Bowden v. Grimsley

Bell, Justice.

1. It is declared in tlie Code, § 53-503, that while a wife “may contract, she may not bind her separate estate by any contract of suretyship nor by any assumption of the debts of her husband, and any sale of her separate estate, made to a creditor of her husband in ex-tinguishment of his debts, shall be absolutely void.”

2. The only issue in the present case being whether the note of the plaintiff, a married woman, was executed as a contract of suretyship for her son, no debt of the husband being involved, the parts of the foregoing section relating to assumption of debts of the…