Rowe v. Kohle

Mr. Ch. J. Murray

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Mr. J. Heydenpeldt concurred.

This suit was originally commenced against Amelia Kohle and her husband, upon an alleged promise to pay the plaintiffs for legal services rendered in defending him in a criminal prosecution.

Judgment by default was taken against the husband.

The wife demurred to the complaint, upon the ground that as a femme covert she was unable, during coverture, to bind herself by contract, unless the same related to her separate estate, which was sustained by the Court; from which decision the plaintiffs appealed.

We have…