Price v. Planters National Bank
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of the city of Bichmond, pronounced January 24,1895, in a suit in chancery wherein the Planters National Bank of Bichmond, suing for itsélf and others, was the complainant, and appellants and others were the defendants. This was a suit in chancery instituted in the Chancery Court of the city of Bichmond for the purpose of subjecting the estate of Mary Triplett Haxall, deceased, to the payment of her debts.
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Appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of the city of Bichmond, pronounced January 24,1895, in a suit in chancery wherein the Planters National Bank of Bichmond, suing for itsélf and others, was the complainant, and appellants and others were the defendants. This was a suit in chancery instituted in the Chancery Court of the city of Bichmond for the purpose of subjecting the estate of Mary Triplett Haxall, deceased, to the payment of her debts. Mary Triplett Haxall was, at the time of her death', the wife of Philip Haxall, and owned an equitable separate estate in fee in a house and lot…
1Opinion of the CourtRiely, J.
The liability of the equitable separate estate of a married woman after her death, for her general engagements, is the important question that confronts us in this case. Is it liable at all; and, if so, in what manner and to what extent % This precise question, so far as I am aware, has not heretofore been directly presented to this court for decision.
The solution of this vexed question depends upon and must be governed by the nature of the separate estate and the extent of the power of the married woman over it.
Whatever may have been the adjudications and judicial expressions of the courts…
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