Roland v. Wilkinson-Bolton Co.

1. Where a wife who claims' an equitable title to property knowingly permits her husband to retain the legal title and possession thereof, and credit is extended to him upon the faith of his apparent ownership, she will be estopped from asserting her secret equity as against a creditor who has no notice of such equity. Kennedy v. Lee, 72 Ga. 39; Ford v. Blackshear Mfg. Co., 140 Ga. 670 (79 S. E. 576) ; Krueger v. MacDougald, 148 Ga. 429 (96 S. E. 867) ; Jones v. Foster, 150 Ga. 277 (103 S. E. 491) ; Orr Shoe Co. v. Lee, 159 Ga. 523 (126 S. E. 292), and cit.

2. The ruling above applies as well…