Hanover National Bank v. Howell
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil actioN, tried at April Term, 1895, of WayNE Superior Court, before Starbwck, J., and a jury. It was admitted that the plaintiff was entitled to judgment against the defendant, E. P. Howell.
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This was a civil actioN, tried at April Term, 1895, of WayNE Superior Court, before Starbwck, J., and a jury. It was admitted that the plaintiff was entitled to judgment against the defendant, E. P. Howell. The following-issue was submitted to the jury : What is plaintiff entitled to recover of the defendant,. Ella D. Howell? It was in evidence that on the 15th day of May, 1893,. the plaintiff was a National Bank duly incorporated and engaged in the business of banking in the city of New. York, state of New York. It was further in evidence that the defendant Ella D. Howell was at the said…
1Opinion of the Court
Clark, J.:
In Pippen v. Wesson, 74 N. C., 437, 445, it is said, a The Legislature may abolish all the incapacities of married women, and give them full power to contract as femes sole. The question is, Has it dono so?” The Court proceeded to answer the question by holding that the Legislature had not done so and that in a case exactly like the present the feme covert had incuired no legal liability by her signature to a similar obligation, it not being for lier benefit nor charged upon her separate estate. That case has been held ever since to be the settled law in North Carolina.
The plaintiff…
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