Field v. Field's Adm'r

Opinion by

Judge Cofer:

It seems to us that the case of Basham v. Chamberlain, 7 B. Mon. 443, is conclusive of this case.

The court there said that “the savings and profits made by the wife, the result of her industry and economy, may with the consent of her husband be applied to her separate use, which she will in equity have a right to retain exclusively as her own, so far as it regards her husband or his representatives after his death, where the rights of creditors do not intervene.” But we know of no case in which it has been held that such an equity in the wife can be enforced against the…