Swint v. Milner Banking Co.

1. While the law prohibits a married woman from binding her separate estate by any contract of suretyship or (which is the same thing) by any pledge of her separate estate to secure the debt of another, she may nevertheless voluntarily and upon her own responsibility borrow money and make a legal pledge of her separate estate as security for the repayment of the loan, and make a gift to her husband of the money thus obtained, although the lender at the time knows that she

*734intends to give the money to her husband to be used by him for his own benefit, and the lender actually delivers the money…