Dodd v. Rynearson's Adm'r

Opinion by

Judge Peters :

Mrs. Sarah Dodd was a married woman when she signed the note, and the contract is not such as under the statute a married woman can bind herself or estate for, consequently, as to her the contract was void; but although it was void as to her it was valid and binding on Isom Dodd, Floyd Burks and George Bradshaw, who labored under no disability. And they were not the sureties of Mrs. Sarah Dodd within the meaning of the statute, because she was not capable of binding herself, and the debt was the debt of the other persons who signed the note, not as sureties but as…