Miller v. Peck
West Virginia Supreme Court
Writ oí eri’or to a judgment of the circuit court of the county of Wetzel, rendered on the 14th day of October, 1878, in an action in said court then pending, wherein Hannah Miller was plaintiff and Andrew Peck, D. B. Miller and J. W. Kyser were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Miller. Hon. A. B. Fleming, judge of the second judicial circuit, rendered the judgment complained of.
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Writ oí eri’or to a judgment of the circuit court of the county of Wetzel, rendered on the 14th day of October, 1878, in an action in said court then pending, wherein Hannah Miller was plaintiff and Andrew Peck, D. B. Miller and J. W. Kyser were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Miller. Hon. A. B. Fleming, judge of the second judicial circuit, rendered the judgment complained of. Moore, PRESIDENT, furnishes the following statement of the case: On the 9th day of October, 1878, Hannah Miller filed in the circuit court of Wetzel county a petition under chapter 107 of Code of 1868,…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, President,
announced the opinion of the Court:
It is insisted by the plaintiff in error, Hannah Miller, that the court erred in giving judgment against her for the white oak barrel heading wood, and deciding that the same was liable to the payment of the judgment against her husband and J. W. Kyserin favor of Andrew Peck..
The consideration of the case as presented to us by the record and argument necessarily involves the questions of husband’s agency in the business affairs of his wife relative to her separate property, and to what extent he can devote his labor and time to her business…
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