Keller v. Mayer, Straus & Baum

Bleckley, Judge.

Creditors of the husband levied upon goods in a store carried on by him as agent for his wife. Their judgment was rendered in 1866. The business was opened upon money borrowed by the wife from her uncle, in 1869, and had increased from a very small beginning to some thousands of dollars. The wife gave some attention to the business, hired and paid clerks, received the money at the close of each day, etc. The husband was an excellent business man, and, after reforming intemperate habits, under which he labored at first, gave his whole time and attention to it, up to the time of…