Bremer's Petition

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Sadler,

Mrs. Bessie D. Bremer presented her petition to the court of common pleas asking that there be granted to *407her a certificate as a feme sole trader, as authorized, under certain circumstances, by the Act of May 28, 1915, P. L. 639. It was averred that she had lived separate and apart from her husband for a year or more, and that all marital relations between them had ceased, and, further, that for a like period she had not been supported by him, but from the income of her separate estate. The Act of May 4, 1855, P. L. 430, provided for a decree, such as was asked,…