Hughes & Co. v. Hamilton
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to certain decrees of the mu-. nicipal court of the. city of Wheeling, rendered respectively on the 27th day of August, 1877, on the 15th day of October, 1877, on the 4th day of December, 1877, on the 20th day of February, 1878, on the 29th day of February, 1878, and on the 4th day of March, 1878, in a cause in said court then pending wherein Thomas Hughes & Co. were plaintiffs, and Susan R. Hamilton and others were defendants, allowed upon the…
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Appeal from and supersedeas to certain decrees of the mu-. nicipal court of the. city of Wheeling, rendered respectively on the 27th day of August, 1877, on the 15th day of October, 1877, on the 4th day of December, 1877, on the 20th day of February, 1878, on the 29th day of February, 1878, and on the 4th day of March, 1878, in a cause in said court then pending wherein Thomas Hughes & Co. were plaintiffs, and Susan R. Hamilton and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Hamilton. Hon. G. L. Cranmer, judge of the municipal court of the city of Wheeling, rendered the'decree…
1Judgment of the CourtHaymond, Judge
The jus disponendi is an incident to the ownership of the separate estate of a married woman ; and it can only be taken away or limited by express words or by an intent so clear as to be the equivalent of express words. The liability of the separate estate of a married woman to the payment of all her debts incurred during coverture is also an incident of the ownership of such separate estate; and it too can only be taken away by express words or by an intent so clear as to be the equivalent of express words. But these incidents, liability to the payment of her debts and hery'us disponendi,…
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