Legal Opinion

Chiles v. Ready's Adm'r

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided March 28, 1876Published

APPEAL FROM GARRARD CIRCUIT COURT.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Judge Peters :

The deeds under which Mrs. D. H. Ready held the land created in her a general estate; and although the debts due to appellants were *52contracted after her marriage on account of necessaries for herself and family, her husband included, it is not alleged (and even if it had been so alleged the evidences of the debts claimed show that she did not sign them, either with or without her husband, nor does it satisfactorily appear) that the contracts or either of them were made by, or that the credit was given to her; consequently her general estate could not be liable for said…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. McMahon v. LewisCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1868
  2. Gatewood v. BryanCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1870

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