Edwards v. McEnhill
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne. (Chambers, J.) Assumpsit. Defendants bring error. At common law, a married woman conld not be a partner in business with, any one: Glover v. Aleott 11 Mich. 471; Jenne v. Marhle 37 Mich. 323; 2 Bish. Mar. Women § 435; 2 Colly.
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Error to Wayne. (Chambers, J.) Assumpsit. Defendants bring error. At common law, a married woman conld not be a partner in business with, any one: Glover v. Aleott 11 Mich. 471; Jenne v. Marhle 37 Mich. 323; 2 Bish. Mar. Women § 435; 2 Colly. Partnership 1008; Story oh Partnership §§ 12, 306; Dixon on Partnership § 35 ; the Constitution and statutes are clearly against her right to make a mere personal obligation, unconnected with property, and not charging it; so that she cannot become personally bound jointly with her husband, nor as a surety, by mere personal promises: De Vries v. ConMin…
1Opinion of the CourtCooley, J.
Defendants are in partnership as carpenters and builders in the city of Detroit. Plaintiffs are husband and wife and claim to be in partnership as masons and plasterers in the same city. In the year 1881 the board of *163■■education of that city, having occasion for certain carpenter .and mason work upon two of their school buildings, advertised for proposals. Defendants sent in a bid for the carpenter work, and ft. F. Edwards & Co., which is the name in which plaintiffs claim to be doing business, sent in a bid for the mason work. These were the lowest bids for the .two kinds of work…
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