Radford v. Carwile
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of Fayette county, rendered on the 1st day of September, 1877, in a cause in said court then pending, in which William Radford and Henry Light were plaintiffs, and Martha A. Carwile and James T. Carwile were defendants, granted on the petition of said plaintiffs. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the decree complained of.
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Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of Fayette county, rendered on the 1st day of September, 1877, in a cause in said court then pending, in which William Radford and Henry Light were plaintiffs, and Martha A. Carwile and James T. Carwile were defendants, granted on the petition of said plaintiffs. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the decree complained of. Green, PRESIDENT, furnishes the following statement of the case : In July, 1876, William Radford filed his bill in the circuit court of Fayette county, to subject the separate real…
1Opinion of the Court
GkeeN, PRESIDENT,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The questions presented by the record in this case are: Whether the separate estate of a married woman is liable for her debts? and if so, what is the extent of its liability and its mode of enforcement ?
The decision of these questions depends, as we shall find, on what was the law prior to the passage of ch. 66 of our Code relating to the separate property and rights of married women. See Code of W. Ya. ch. 66 p. 447. We will therefore consider first what was .the law on those points prior to the passage of our Code.
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