Cannon v. Turner
Supreme Court of Alabama
[action at law against separate estate of feme covert.] Appeal from tlie City Court of Mobile. Tried before tbe Hon. Alex. McKiNStby.
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[action at law against separate estate of feme covert.] Appeal from tlie City Court of Mobile. Tried before tbe Hon. Alex. McKiNStby. The complaint in tbis case, as amended, was as follows: “Jarvis Turner ^ The plaintiff claims of the defend-vs. lant the sum of $377 50, for wTork Bllinor M. Cannon.) and labor done and materials supplied in furnishing and adding to the comfort and convenience of the dwelling-house of the defendant, at her instance and request, with interest from the 1st November, 1854. “And plaintiff avers, also, that defendant was a married woman, and owned and possessed a…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
After the most careful consideration, we decided in Pickens and Wife v. Oliver, 29 Ala. 528, that the provisions of article 3, chapter I, title 5, part 2, of the Code, “ relate to and provide for estates of married women which arc made separate by operation of law; estates created by descent, gift, or in some other manner, without words lohich would have created a separate estate before our statutes on the subject; and not to estates which, independent of legislation, would have been separate by operation of the instrument or contract creating them.” — Gerald and Wife v. McKenzie, 27 Ala.…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Gerald v. McKenzieSupreme Court of Alabama · 1855
- Friend v. OliverSupreme Court of Alabama · 1855
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