Curry v. Shrader

This suit 'is against husband and wife, upon a note made by the wife -whilst sole. Upon the trial, it appeared' that some time after the suit was commenced, the husband had received in right of his wife money and notes to an amount greater than'the debt sued for, but at the commencement of the suit had received nothing. At common law the husband became liable for the debts of the wife, contracted before the marriage, whether she brought to him property or not. The marriage alone bound the husband, during the coverture, to the payment of her debts. But by an act of our Legislature passed in…