Sykes v. Chadwick
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the case being thus: James Sykes and H. A. Chadwick (the latter a married man, his wife being Eleanor Chadwick), owning a piece of real estate in the city of Washington, and wishing to borrow money on- it, conveyed it bydeed of trust — that is to say, mortgaged it — to Hyde to secure a sum which he lent them; Mrs. Chadwick joining in the mortgage, and her acknowledgment of the same being taken separately and apart from…
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Error to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the case being thus: James Sykes and H. A. Chadwick (the latter a married man, his wife being Eleanor Chadwick), owning a piece of real estate in the city of Washington, and wishing to borrow money on- it, conveyed it bydeed of trust — that is to say, mortgaged it — to Hyde to secure a sum which he lent them; Mrs. Chadwick joining in the mortgage, and her acknowledgment of the same being taken separately and apart from her husband, in the way prescribed by the laws of the District in order to pass the estate of a feme covert. Desiring…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
The question is whether the note on which this suit is brought against Sykes is valid, as against the defendant, so as to sustain the present action. In aid of the plaintiff’s case certain acts of Congress relating to the District of Columbia have been referred to. First, an act regulating the *145rights of property of married women in the District of Columbia, passed Api’il 10th, 1869, by which it is enacted, in substance, that the right of a married woman to any property belonging to her at the time of marriage, or acquired during marriage, in any other way than by gift or conveyance from her…
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