Eckerly v. McGhee
Tennessee Supreme Court
Appeal from Chancery Court of Shelby County. W. W. McDowell, Ch. Bill to enforce against the separate realty of a married woman an express charge for her debt created by her parol contract.
1Opinion of the CourtPolices, J.
This case presents squarely the question, Can a married woman possessed of a separate estate in personalty and realty make a valid *662parol engagement to bind and charge her separate estate, which will be enforced in equity against the realty so held, independent of any considerations of benefit or enlargement of her separate estate?
So far as we are informed, the question, as here put, has never in terms been adjudged in this State.
We have, however, adjudications on the general subject of charging the separate estate of married women, by the light of which we are enabled to answer in the…
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