Cooley v. Cooley

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Manning, J.

This is an appeal by petition of a creditor of the defendant husband from a judgment in favour of the plaintiff, his wife, for separation of property and for a moneyed demand.

Mrs. Cooley alleges her marriage in 1867 and her ownership of lands in Texas and of certain machinery, as set forth in the account thereto annexed — that her husband used the sums of money detailed in the account in his business and has never returned any part thereof — that Ms affairs are damaged, etc., and pray? that the community be dissolved, the property be…