Ritter v. Ritter
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Perry county. This was an action of debt, brought by Catharine Ritter, the wife-of Jacob Ritter, by her next friend, Barbara Good, against the said Jacob Ritter, her husband.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Perry county. This was an action of debt, brought by Catharine Ritter, the wife-of Jacob Ritter, by her next friend, Barbara Good, against the said Jacob Ritter, her husband. The plaintiff and defendant were married about the 19th April 1856; and on the 14th June 1856, the defendant executed the following instrument, on which this suit was brought:— “I do hereby promise to pay, or, in case of my death before my wife Catharine, do order that my executor pay, or cause to be paid to my wife Catharine, the just and full sum of ten hundred and sixty-five dollars, for…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Woodward, J.
The general question in this case is, whether a married woman can, in her own name, by her mother as next friend, maintain an action of debt against her husband on a contract made during coverture.
The parties were married in February 1856, the contract in suit was made between them 14th June 1856, and this suit was brought 18th February 1857.
Both the court below, who sustained the action, and the counsel who argued in support of it here, rest it entirely on the Married Woman’s Act of Assembly of 11th April 1848, and the subsequent and…
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