Campe v. Horne
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 176, Oct. T., 1893, by defendants, Joseph Horne et al., partners, from judgment of C. P. Armstrong Co., June T., 1890, No. 136, on verdict for plaintiff, Margaret A. Campe. Ejectment. Before Rayburn, P. J. At the trial, there was evidence to the following effect: Plaintiff derived title to the property by deed from her daughter, Mamie Campe Ewer, wife of James T. Ewer.
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Appeal, No. 176, Oct. T., 1893, by defendants, Joseph Horne et al., partners, from judgment of C. P. Armstrong Co., June T., 1890, No. 136, on verdict for plaintiff, Margaret A. Campe. Ejectment. Before Rayburn, P. J. At the trial, there was evidence to the following effect: Plaintiff derived title to the property by deed from her daughter, Mamie Campe Ewer, wife of James T. Ewer. The property had been sold at sheriff’s sale as the property of James T. Ewer and had been bought in by his execution creditors, the defendants. There was evidence that Mrs. Ewer bought the lot from Joseph G. Beale.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Gbeen,
The chief contention of the appellants is that a married woman without a separate estate cannot buy property on credit. That this was the law before the act of 1887 cannot be doubted, but it is equally certain that it is not the law now. We have so frequently declared that the act of 1887 has worked a radical change in the contractual capacity of married women, that it ought to be unnecessary to repeat the declaration. In the case of Adams v. Grey, 154 Pa. 258, we sustained a purchase by a married woman of a stock of household furniture, on credit, and also a…
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