Stieff v. Millikin

The appeal is on behalf of the children of a decedent, defendants below, from a decree requiring payment, from the personal estate of their father, of a debt secured by a mortgage on real estate held by him and his wife as tenants by the entireties. For the appellants it is contended that the real estate, now the property of the surviving wife solely, should be relieved of payment of only one-half of the debt, because it was the wife’s debt as well as the husband’s.

The facts are set out in a special case stated. Code, art. 16, sec. 221 et seq. The property was purchased after the marriage, in…