Mohr v. Griffin
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Bullock. Heard before the Hon. William L. Parks. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The wife had the legal right to purchase the demands against her husband, or to assume the payment of his debt.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Bullock. Heard before the Hon. William L. Parks. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The wife had the legal right to purchase the demands against her husband, or to assume the payment of his debt. She may, by express authority, contract with her husband as though he was a stranger, and ma y pay, or assume the payment of his debts, and for that T ir-i ose she may sell and dispose of her property, real or personal. — Hollingsworth v. Hill, 116 Ala. 184; Hidden s v. Powell, 108 Ala. 621; Hubbard v. Sayre, 103 Ala. 440; Pratt L. t£- Imp.…
1Opinion of the CourtItakalson, J.
The facts of the case are substantially, that prior to' the 1st day of April, 1899, the 'Complainant, Ada J. Griffin, a married woman, the wife of J. E. Griffin, owned and possessed 610 acres of land described in the bill, lying in Bullock county, on which she and her husband resided; that the complainant purchased the lands from her father, J. E. Hightower, in October, 1897, and he made her a deed thereto, but there remained due and owing to’ said Hightower on the pur*459chase money for said land, the sum of $803.07, to secure AAdiich she had promised to give him a mortgage on the lands. Mrs.…
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