Cohen v. Wollner, Hirschberg & Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeals from the Circuit Court of Perry. Tried before the Hon. JohN Moore. These several cases (Wollner, HirscKberg <& Co. v. Cohen, Maas da Bloch v. Cohen, and J. Pollack & Co. v. Cohen), involving the same questions, were argued and submitted together.
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Appeals from the Circuit Court of Perry. Tried before the Hon. JohN Moore. These several cases (Wollner, HirscKberg <& Co. v. Cohen, Maas da Bloch v. Cohen, and J. Pollack & Co. v. Cohen), involving the same questions, were argued and submitted together. Mrs. Caroline M. Cohen, the defendant in each case, was a married woman, the wife of Meyer Cohen, whose disabilities of coverture had been removed by a decree of the chancellor, under the general statute (Code, § 2731); and the plaintiffs’ debts in each case, on which their respective actions were founded, were contracted by her, in the…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
Amending a former statute, the legislature, by act approved February 10, 1875 (Pamph. Acts, 194; Code of 1876, § 2731), enacted: “That the several chancellors in this State, either in term time or in vacation, are hereby authorized and empowered to relieve married women of the disabilities of coverture, as to their statutory and other separate estates, so far as to invest them with the right to buy, sell, hold, convey and mortgage real and personal property, and to sue and be sued as femmes sole, whenever the wife, by her next friend, shall file her petition in the Court of Chancery for the…
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