Forrest v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Chancery Court at Columbiana. This was a bill in Chancery by the defendant in error, to subject the separate estate of Mrs. Forrest, to the payment of a debt alledged to be due from her to the defendant, as the executor of her father. The case was formerly before this Court, 'reported in 4th Porter, 44, when the principle governing the case, was settled.
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Error to the Chancery Court at Columbiana. This was a bill in Chancery by the defendant in error, to subject the separate estate of Mrs. Forrest, to the payment of a debt alledged to be due from her to the defendant, as the executor of her father. The case was formerly before this Court, 'reported in 4th Porter, 44, when the principle governing the case, was settled. The question here determined, is one of practice merely, which sufficiently appears in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtOrmond, J.
— When this case was before this Court at a previous term, reported in 4th Porter, 44, certain principles were determined, which are the law of the case. It was then held, that the ante-rmptial agreement enabled the wife to act in relation to her separate estate, as if she were a feme *216sole, and that her written engagement created a lien upon her separate estate.
By the answer, she admits that she executed the bond, set out in the bill, in favor of the complainant, who was the executor of her father’s estate, in satisfaction of a claim which the executor set up for disbursements, made on…
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