Bates v. Sultan
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION, begun in March, 1894, in the Superior Court of CraveN County, by the plaintiff against the defendants to recover the sum of $1,052.60, and to have the judgment declared a charge upon the separate estate of the feme defendant, and heard on demurrer before Bryan,«/., at May-special term, 1895, of said court. His Honor sustained the demurrer and plaintiff appealed. The facts and the grounds of demurrer appear in the opinion of Associate Justice Montgomery.
1Opinion of the Court
Montgomery, J.:
Tfeme covert defendant, M. E. Sultan, not a free trader, was engaged in merchandise in New Berne, her husband, the other defendant, the_ while managing the business for her. She, through her husband, on January 30th, 1892, at New Berne, executed and delivered to the plaintiff a writing containing her financial condition, assets and liabilities, the assets consisting of real and personal property, in value about twenty-five thousand dollars ; her Habilites being only about thirteen hundred dollars. The yearly extent of her business she stated to be twenty-three thousand dollars.…
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