Phillips v. Graves
Ohio Supreme Court
Appeal. Reserved in the district court of Clarke county. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. Goode & Bowman, for plaintiffs in error, submitted an argument prepared by S. Mason, their associate, now deceased, to the following purport in brief: The demurrer to the petition raises the question, whether a married woman is competent to make a valid contract for the-purchase of property for her own use and benefit, and which a court of equity will enforce…
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Appeal. Reserved in the district court of Clarke county. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. Goode & Bowman, for plaintiffs in error, submitted an argument prepared by S. Mason, their associate, now deceased, to the following purport in brief: The demurrer to the petition raises the question, whether a married woman is competent to make a valid contract for the-purchase of property for her own use and benefit, and which a court of equity will enforce against her separate estate. We undertake to maintain the affirmative of this question. Courts of equity, especially in…
1Opinion of the CourtMcIlvaine, J.
This action is prosecuted by the plaintiffs-against the defendants, Benjamin Graves and Elizabeth B.,. his wife, for the purpose of charging the separate estate of the wife with the payment of a claim for the price and value-of a piano-forte sold and delivered by the plaintiffs to her on the 18th day of April, 1866, for which she executed to them a written instrument, as follows :
“.$510.. Received of Philip Phillips & Co., a No. 4 Bradbury piano, valued at five hundred and ten dollars, to be paid for by the 20th day of May, 1866.
“E. B. Graves.”
“New Carlisle, Ohio, April 18, 1866.”’
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