Loomis v. . Ruck

There is no ground upon which the judgment against the defendant Martha Ruck can be sustained. The note in suit was not made for the benefit of her separate estate, nor in the course of any separate business carried on by her, and although it purports in terms to charge her separate estate, yet it is found by the referee that her signature thereto was obtained from her by her husband, the defendant John Ruck, by duress, to enable him to take up another note previously given by him to the plaintiff for a debt contracted by Ruck, for his own benefit. The note in suit was drawn by the plaintiff…