Third National Bank v. Poe
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Complaint, from city court of Columbus — Judge Willis. April 4, 1908. To boil down the testimony and to give the defendant in error the benefit of doubtful issues of fact, it may be stated in general terms that Captain Poe, the husband*of the defendant in error, owed the bank a past-due note for $5,000; the bank was peremptorily demanding payment, suspecting him to be insolvent; Captain Poe and his wife, for reasons which it is not necessary to mention, were extremely…
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Complaint, from city court of Columbus — Judge Willis. April 4, 1908. To boil down the testimony and to give the defendant in error the benefit of doubtful issues of fact, it may be stated in general terms that Captain Poe, the husband*of the defendant in error, owed the bank a past-due note for $5,000; the bank was peremptorily demanding payment, suspecting him to be insolvent; Captain Poe and his wife, for reasons which it is not necessary to mention, were extremely anxious that it should be paid, and that the bank should not take action. The cashier of the bank came to the Poe residence on…
1Opinion of the CourtPowell, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. A married woman, who, to trace her ascent in the social, scale according to the observation of a noted French anthropolo*117gist of the last generation, was “first a beast of burden, then a domestic animal, then a slave, then a servant, and then a minor,” is now, according to our law, a free trader, subject only to three express exceptions: She can not bind her separate estate by any contract of suretyship; she can not assume to, or pay to, the creditor a debt of her husband; she can not sell her separate estate (property or money) to her husband, without…
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