Hughes v. Nash

Opinion by

Judge Holt;

The personal judgment rendered in this case against the appellant, Sophia Hughes, was improper, first because it was not asked and no defense made to the suit, and secondly she, was a married woman when she executed the note upon which it is based, and the fact that she became dis-covert by divorce before the date of the judgment did not authorize it.

Both she and her then husband signed the note. The petition alleges that the land described in it was then her separate estate; that she intended to charge it with the debt; that it was so understood; that such was the…