Johns Hopkins Hospital v. Delhamer

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Cohen,

Since the passage of the Act of April 11, 1848, P. L. 536, 48 P.S. §§64 and 116, we have held on innumerable occasions that in order to bind a married woman’s separate estate for medical services rendered herself and family it must be shown that those medical services were rendered at her request and on her credit.

Appellant would have us ignore the long line of cases that would permit a creditor to recover against the wife’s individual estate only in the event that the debt was contracted by the wife. Moore v. Copley, 165 Pa. 294, 30 Atl. 829 (1895); Sawtelle’s…