City Lumber Co. v. Barnhill

This case is before the court on a petition to rebe&r. Petitioner, City Lumber Company, urges that the real estate of Mrs. Barnhill, a feme covert, should be Subjected to liability as her separate estate under the doctrine of the case of Shacklett v. Polk, 4 Heisk. 104, 113, to the effect that the separate estate of a married woman may be held liable for debts created for its benefit and preservation, with or without an express undertaking on her part to bind it. It is sufficient to reply to this contention that the- City Lumber Company, as complainant, did not proceed on an allegation that…