Atwood v. Schlee

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, executed a mortgage to defendant Schlee to secure the note of the husband. The mortgage was valid. LeMay v. Wickert, 98 Mich. 628; Ehle v. Looker, 182 Mich. 248; Federal Bond & Mortgage Co. v. Goldman, 235 Mich. 571. The mortgage imposed no personal liability on the wife and, therefore, did not fall within the provisions of Act No. 158, Pub. Acts 1917 (see 3 Comp. Laws 1929, §13062 et seq.), for that act only removed some common-law disability of a wife and does not impose any restraint unknown at common law. Kies v. Walworth, 250 Mich. 34; Seymour v. Powers, 255…