Consolidated Cases of Ehrmann v. Hendrick

The plaintiff brought the suits, here consolidated, to recover on the defendant’s four overdue promissory notes, dated February 9, 1925, drawn to plaintiff’s order, each for one thousand dollars and interest, payable respectively, eighteen, twenty-four, thirty and thirty-six months after date.

Two general issue pleas and an amended special plea were filed; the latter set up in defense, that when the defendant signed the notes, she lived in Florida, was a married woman, that her husband did not sign them and under the Florida law cannot be held personally liable on them; the plaintiff set up by…