Willard v. Eastham

This case presents a question entirely novel in the jurisprudence of this commonwealth, and which could not have come before us until the grant of the full equity powers which were conferred upon this court by a recent statute. St. 1857, c. 214. It is a bill in equity, by which the plaintiff seeks to charge the separate estate of a married woman with the payment of a promissory note made by her. The bill avers, in substance, that the brother of Mrs. Eastham purchased of the plaintiff his interest in a copartnership; that, being himself of no sufficient credit or pecuniary responsibility, he…