Campe v. Horne

Citations

• 158 Pa. 508
• 27 A. 1106
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1624

Syllabus

<p>Married women — Purchase of realty — Act of June 3, 1887.</p> <p>Under the married persons property act of June 3, 1887, P. L. 332, a married woman may purchase land on credit, and give any kind of lawful lien upon it as security for the payment of the purchase money, or any part of it.</p> <p>Ejectment — Married women — Evidence—Weight of.</p> <p>In an action of ejectment to recover real estate claimed by a wife as her property, but sold under execution as the property of the husband, if there is evidence that the property was bought with the wife’s money, the case should be submitted to the jury, without regard to the weight of the testimony.</p> <p>In such a case it is proper to admit evidence of the cost of the building, as the jury should consider the question whether the wife furnished all the money; but evidence of the husband’s insolvency, or of his indebtedness at the time of the pui’chase of the property, is irrelevant.</p>