Kies v. Walworth

The case involves construction of Act No. 158, Pub. Acts 1917, which abolishes the common-law disabilities of married women to the extent that “it shall be competent for them to bind and make themselves jointly liable with their husbands upon any written instrument” which contains a statement that no undue influence or constraint has been exerted against the wife in the execution of it, the liability, however, to extend only to real estate held by the husband and wife as tenants by the entireties or real estate acquired by either of them as survivor of the other. Such property is liable to…