Walsh's Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

This appeal is from an order dismissing the petition of Marie A. Walsh to he decreed a feme sole trader. We review the record as on certiorari: Graver’s Petition, 260 Pa. 186, 189, 103 A. 601.

As early as the Act of February 22, 1718, Sm. L. 99, it was provided that a married woman might become a feme sole trader. 1 The class to whom that privilege was available was enlarged by sections 2 and 4 of the Act of May 4, 1855, P. L. 430, 48 PS sections 42, 43, entitled: “Relating to certain duties and rights of Husband and Wife, and Parents and Children.”- Section 2…