Smith v. D. Rothschild Co.

The bill is to declare void deeds and mortgage on the wife’s property as procured and given in securing the husband’s debts. The injunctive relief prayed against a pending suit in ejectment is denied in the sustaining of respondents’ demurrer to the bill.

The statute has often been construed, and' forbids the wife, directly or indirectly, to become surety for the husband. Code, § 4497; Leath v. Hancock, 210 Ala. 374, 98 So. 274; Morriss v. O’Connor, 206 Ala. 542, 90 So. 304; Little v. People’s Bank of Mobile, 209 Ala. 620, 96 So. 763; Vinegar Bend Lumber Co. v. Leftwich, 197 Ala. 352, 72 So.…