Holman v. Gillette

Ohristiancy, Oh. J.

The plaintiff in this case was a married woman, and brought her action of replevin to recover a cow sold by her husband to the defendant, the cow being exempt by law from a sale on execution. The only question necessary to the decision of the case is, whether the husband could make a valid sale of the property, with the verbal, hut without the written, assent of the wife to the sale.

The only law under which she could possibly claim to maintain the action — there being no other alluding in any way to the subject — is the third section of the act of February 13, 1855, as…