Hartman v. Ogborn
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. Ejectment by John Hartman and Mary Ann his wife, late Coleman, in her right, against Aaron Ogborn, Robert E. Williams, and Thomas Woolston.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. Ejectment by John Hartman and Mary Ann his wife, late Coleman, in her right, against Aaron Ogborn, Robert E. Williams, and Thomas Woolston. The writ issued to March Term 1865. Mary Ann Coleman was married to John Hartman on the 1st day of February 1858, and on the 5th day of the same month, in her maiden name, Coleman, executed a mortgage to James S. Keen on the premises in dispute, to secure the payment of $2100. The mortgage was recorded the same day. On the 16th day of the same month James S. Keen assigned the mortgage to Abraham Coates and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Woodward, C. J.
Mrs. Hartman executed a bond and mortgage in her maiden name of Mary Ann Coleman, five days after her marriage to Hartman, and that these instruments were void is not to be questioned. • The disability of a married woman to encumber her separate estate for the debt of another has been declared in many cases, and was repeated in respect of this very bond in Keen v. Coleman, 3 Wright 299.
But the question upon the record has respect to the judgment upon the mortgage, rather than to the mortgage itself. The judgment was founded upon two…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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