O'Daily v. Morris

Morris sued Joanna O’Daily, the appellant, and Jeremiah O’Daily, before a justice of the peace, on a promissory note for seventy dollars, executed by them on the 3d of August, 1860. Jeremiah made default. Joanna appeared and answered in three paragraphs:

1. The general denial.

2. That she was a married woman when the note w*as executed, and it was therefore void.

3. That she was a married woman at the time of making the note, and it was not given for her separate debt.

On the hearing the justice rendered judgment against her, and she appealed to the circuit court, where the cause was *112tried by the…