Johnson v. Sutherland

Sutherland sued Mrs. Johnson, a married woman, on the following note:

“ One year from date, for value received I promise to pay C. Sutherland _ or bearer the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars with interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum, the same being for money loaned. Flint, March 14, 1868.

(Signed) Amanda Johnson.

*580The defense set up was that there was no such consideration as would support the promise of a married woman to pay .money, inasmuch as the note was not given for anything which became or was to become the separate property of Mrs. Johnson.

It has been repeatedly held by…