Wayne v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, No. 41, Jan. T. 1889, to C. P. Chester Co., to review a judgment on a verdict for the plaintiff in a feigned issue in a sheriff’s interpleader, between M. Laura Lewis, as plaintiff, and-William Wayne, Jr., as defendant, at Oct. T. 1887, No. 47. Green and Clark, JJ., absent.
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Error, No. 41, Jan. T. 1889, to C. P. Chester Co., to review a judgment on a verdict for the plaintiff in a feigned issue in a sheriff’s interpleader, between M. Laura Lewis, as plaintiff, and-William Wayne, Jr., as defendant, at Oct. T. 1887, No. 47. Green and Clark, JJ., absent. The evidence tended to establish the following facts, at the trial, before Waddell, J.: In Aug. 1887, the sheriff levied upon certain personal property as the property of Daniel H. Lewis, on a fi. fa. issued by William Wayne, Jr. The defendant in error, the wife of the defendant in the execution, claimed, as her…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
Judgment affirmed.
Cf. Orr v. Bornstein, decided Feb. 25, 1889, where it is said: “ In Leinbach v. Templin, 105 Pa. 522, a married woman was in possession of property which appeared to have been bought and paid for, in part at least, by her earnings in a business which she carried on prior to obtaining the benefits of the Act of 1872.”
The point expressly decided in Orr v. Bornstein is that a married woman who has complied with the requirements of the Act of April 3,1872, in regard to separate earnings, may borrow money upon her own credit, whether possessed of separate estate or…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Leinbach v. TemplinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1884
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- Frost v. KnappSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1899