Veal v. Veal

This was a suit by an administrator, on a promissory note. The defendant filed a plea setting up that she signed the note in assumption of a pre-existing debt of her husband, which was known to the payee, and that she received no benefit therefrom. She was the sole maker of the note. The jury returned *446a verdict in favor of the defendant’s plea. The plaintiff moved for a new trial, and the motion was overruled. He obtained the writ of certiorari, which was overruled, and to this judgment he excepted.

1. Every restriction upon the power of a married woman to contract with reference to her…