Smith, Et Vir. v. Chapman

This was a suit in equity brought by appellee against appellant, a married woman, predicated upon Section 2 of Article II of the Constitution of this State, which provides that a married woman’s separate property may be charged in equity and sold for money or things due upon any agreement made by her in writing for the benefit of her separate statutory property.

The Chancellor decreed that the married woman defendant in this case had made an agreement in writing for the benefit of her separate statutory property, in the form of two-certain promissory notes that had been given by her in…