State ex rel. Gawtry v. Adams

A bill in equity was filed in the St. Louis Circuit Court, the general object of which was to subject certain real estate, the separate property of Anne E. Gawtry, a married woman, to the payment of a personal contract alleged to *465have been made by her. The cause coming on to be heard,, a decree was made charging the real estate of the defendant, Anne E. Gawtry, with the sum of $12,546.71, being the amount, with interest, of the note alleged to have been executed by her, and ordering that the said real estate be sold to satisfy the note. Mrs. Gawtry, after talcing the usual steps, presented…