Livingston v. Powers

A bill in equity was brought to subject described real estate, the separate property of a married woman, to the payment of amounts due for labor used in clearing trees and stumps from the real estate, it being wild and unoccupied land, and the expenditures for the labor having been made at the instance of the husband. By answers the liability of the married woman for the alleged expenditure was challenged on the ground that she had not contracted for or authorized her husband to contract for the labor to be performed on the land and had no knowledge of and had not- assented to the use of the…