Roberts v. . Lisenbee
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action tried at Spring Term, 1881, of BuNCombe Superior Court, before Gilliam, J. The action was brought to Madison superior court by the plaintiffs, William J. Roberts and wife Kate P. Roberts, against Reuben Lisenbee and wife Lucinda Lisenbee, for slanderous words spoken by the wife of the defendant of and concerning the wife of the plaintiff; and at fall term thereof the case was removed upon the affidavit of the defendant to the county of Buncombe, where it was…
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Civil Action tried at Spring Term, 1881, of BuNCombe Superior Court, before Gilliam, J. The action was brought to Madison superior court by the plaintiffs, William J. Roberts and wife Kate P. Roberts, against Reuben Lisenbee and wife Lucinda Lisenbee, for slanderous words spoken by the wife of the defendant of and concerning the wife of the plaintiff; and at fall term thereof the case was removed upon the affidavit of the defendant to the county of Buncombe, where it was continued from term to term until fall term, 1881, when the defendant Reuben Lisenbee suggested the death of his wife, the…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
It has been the policy of our law-makers since 1868, and even before that date to some extent, to emancipate the wife from many of the disabilities of coverture, re- suiting from the common law doctrine of the merger of the legal existence of the wife in that of her husband.
This legislation commenced with the act of 1848, which restricted the common law initial rights of the husband as tgnant by the courtesy, in the lands of his wife acquired by her since the first Monday of March, 1849 ; then the act of 1871-72, styled the “marriage act,”(Bat. Rev., ch. 69) which invested the wife with many…
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