Strong v. Waddell
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Bussell. Heard before tbe Hon. B. B. McCraw. Tbe bill in this case was filed on tbe 2d March, 1874, .by James'F. Waddell, against Samuel D. Strong and Aletba F. Strong, his wife; and sought to foreclose a mortgage on a certain tract of land, which the complainant had sold and conveyed, on the date of the mortgage, to Mrs. Strong, taking the note of herself and her husband for the purchase-money, and a mortgage on the land to secure its…
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Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Bussell. Heard before tbe Hon. B. B. McCraw. Tbe bill in this case was filed on tbe 2d March, 1874, .by James'F. Waddell, against Samuel D. Strong and Aletba F. Strong, his wife; and sought to foreclose a mortgage on a certain tract of land, which the complainant had sold and conveyed, on the date of the mortgage, to Mrs. Strong, taking the note of herself and her husband for the purchase-money, and a mortgage on the land to secure its payment. The note was dated the 9th January, 1873, and was payable on the 1st December, 1873, with interest from date ; and…
1Opinion of the Court
BRICKELL, 0. J.
The decree does not fix on the appellant Aletha a personal liability, nor condemn her statutory separate estate, if any she has, to the satisfaction of the mortgage debt. It simply orders a sale of the mortgaged premises for the payment of the purchase-money. A married woman, doubtless, labors under a disability of contracting, so as to bind herself personally; nor can she charge her statutory estate, except in the modes the statute prescribes. But, if she purchases real estate, and executes, jointly with her *473husband, a promissory note for payment of the purchase-money, and a…
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