Price v. Scharpff

Carl Seharpff, one of the defendants, purchased a mercantile business from the plaintiff, Alfred Price, in 1913, giving his note for $1,700 in part payment thereof. This note was reduced to judgment in October, 1933, for a balance of $932 then due thereon.

In 1919, after incurring said indebtedness by the husband, the defendant Minnie Seharpff, his wife, purchased two lots and paid $600 therefor out of her own funds, taking title thereto in her own name. Thereafter, in 1920 or 1921, she had a dwelling house constructed thereon, at a cost of about $9,000. When the building was completed, in…