Elliott v. Bently
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. On the 18th of May, 1860, one Kern recovered a judgment against the defendant Henry Bently for $213.46, on wbicb execution was issued to the sheriff of Milwaukee county (where said Henry resided), and was returned unsatisfied. Upon supplemental proceedings, Elliott was appointed receiver of all the goods and chattels of said Henry, and duly qualified and entered upon that office.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. On the 18th of May, 1860, one Kern recovered a judgment against the defendant Henry Bently for $213.46, on wbicb execution was issued to the sheriff of Milwaukee county (where said Henry resided), and was returned unsatisfied. Upon supplemental proceedings, Elliott was appointed receiver of all the goods and chattels of said Henry, and duly qualified and entered upon that office. This action is brought by him, as such receiver, against said Henry and his wife Helen, George Burnham and James Wormsley, to compel a delivery to the plaintiff of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
DixON, C. J.
It, is somewhat remarkable, among the many beneficent changes recently effected by legislation for the welfare and protection of married women, that the legislature should have omitted to secure to the wife the rewards of her individual skill and labor. Tbe real and personal property owned by her at the time of marriage, or which she may receive after marriage, by gift, grant, devise or bequest, from any person other than her husband, and the rents, issues and profits thereof, are zealously guarded and secured to her sole and separate use. But her earnings, the…
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