Walton v. Gaines

In July, 1881, Louise L. Gaines, being then a minor and a married woman, joined her husband in the execution of a mortgage conveying certain realty, constituting a part of her general estate, to secure one Watkins, complainant’s intestate, in the payment of a note of $8,000. After reaching her majority, and while yet a feme covert, at the request of the mortgagee, and without any new consideration, she executed and delivered to him a paper, in the following words, to wit:

£ £ I, Louise L. Gaines, being twenty-two years of age in November, 1889, :and having signed certain notes and mortgage for…