Dinkgrave v. Norwood

The plaintiff, a married woman, enjoins seizures made under executions of three several judgments against her husband, on the ground that the effects seized are her separate property. She gives in evidence a judgment of separation of property between herself and her husband, rendered in May, 1848, and recognizing her as his creditor for a large sum; also, sales of property in execution of said judgment. She also gives in evidence a partition of the estate of her father in 1842, among his heirs, showing what property she inherited. The District Judge has gone into an elaborate examination of…