Cartwright v. Hollis
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from San Augustine. The petition represents that William and Elizabeth L. Hollis, his wife, are indebted to the petitioner in tho sum of one hundred and eighty-fonr dollars and fifty cents, with interest at the rate of ten per cent, per annum from the 13 th of March, 1847; that the said William, having occasion to purchase goods, wares, and merchandise for tile use of his fatuity and plantation in 1840, applied to the petitioner to malte the said purchases, and…
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Appeal from San Augustine. The petition represents that William and Elizabeth L. Hollis, his wife, are indebted to the petitioner in tho sum of one hundred and eighty-fonr dollars and fifty cents, with interest at the rate of ten per cent, per annum from the 13 th of March, 1847; that the said William, having occasion to purchase goods, wares, and merchandise for tile use of his fatuity and plantation in 1840, applied to the petitioner to malte the said purchases, and proposed that his wife, the said Elizabeth, who liad a large amount of separate property, should become his security for the…
1Opinion of the Court
Hemphill, Ch. J.
The appellant in his brief states that the question presented by the record or the one intended to be settled by the appeal is "whether a married woman can contract by the execution of a promissory note jointly with her husband, so as to make her separate property liable to the credit or by a proceeding in rem for that purpose, the husband having no community or separate property from which the debt can be enforced.” The question is one of considerable importance, and has been elucidated in a logical and elaborate argument of the counsel in support of the affirmative of the…
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