Angier v. Coward

HOBBY, Presiding Judge.

The question of controlling importance in this case, and which is presented under several assignments of error, is in effect whether a married woman can execute a valid bond for title, or executory contract to convey her separate real estate when she is joined by her husband and the instrument is properly acknowledged. Or, stated *552in another form, whether our courts can in a proper case decree a specific performance of such a contract against the wife.

Plaintiffs in error, who were husband and wife and plaintiffs in the court below, executed on September 14, 1882, to the…