Union Stock Yards National Bank v. Coffman
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Milts District Court. — Hon. Walter I. Smith, Judge. Action to recover on one note of one thousand dollars, dated December 21, 1894, and on another of two thousand one hundred dollars, dated March 18, 1895, on which were indorsements amounting to one hundred and eleven dollars and thirty-nine cents.
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Appeal from Milts District Court. — Hon. Walter I. Smith, Judge. Action to recover on one note of one thousand dollars, dated December 21, 1894, and on another of two thousand one hundred dollars, dated March 18, 1895, on which were indorsements amounting to one hundred and eleven dollars and thirty-nine cents. The notes became due sis months after date, and were signed by S. J. Coffman as principal, and his wife, I. A. Coffman, as surety, in Nebraska, where all the parties reside. I. A. Coffman .filed an answer, in which she set up the defense that under the laws of Nebraska, as construed by…
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
*5961 2 *595It is conceded that the laws of Nebraska, as construed by the supreme court of that state, govern in this case. The statutes need not be set out, as the rules applicable may be deduced from the decisions. With reference to a married woman it is held in Davis v. Bank, 5 Neb. 242, that: “The statute coners on her the right and power to make legal and *596binding contracts. It gives her the legal right to sue, and makes her legally liable to be sued on her contracts, in the same manner as if she were unmarried. * * * ' But the rule must be observed that all such contracts of a feme covert must be…
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