In re the Inventory of the Goods of McCready

The Surrogate.

This is a motion for an attachment, under 3 R. S., 5th ed., p. 179, against a. married woman, to whom letters of administration were issued before her marriage, and who refuses Or neglects to file an inventory of the assets of the estate, as required by law.

It is insisted that, because of the salutary rule of the Common Law, which held the wife to be under the dominion of her husband, and made him liable for. her acts, that this Court cannot issue an attachment against the administratrix, but must issue it, if at all,, against her husband. The question is an interesting one,’…