Botts v. Knabb

Citations

• 116 Pa. 28
• 9 A. 33
• 1887 Pa. LEXIS 360

Syllabus

<p>1. A declaration charging a married woman with liability upon a contract made with her by a laborer for work done upon her real estate, “ said work having been done at her request, in and about the management of her separate estate and necessary for the preservation, enjoyment and use and profit of the said separate estate ” is sufficient.</p> <p>2. A married woman, owning in her own right an improved farm, is capable of binding her separate estate by a contract for services necessarily required and rendered in harvesting, housing and marketing, for her benefit, the growing crop on said farm.</p>