Choppin v. Harmon

Citations

• 46 Miss. 304

Syllabus

<p>1. Maebied womeN — theib contbacts. — Unless a married woman has a separate estate, she is subject, as to her contracts, to the disabilities of cover-ture.</p> <p>2. Same —suits against them — allegation op sepabate pbopebtv in pleading. — It is an essential aUegation, in every action against a married woman, that she has a separate property subject to the debt, and this must be made in the declaration, or in a replication to the plea of ooverture.</p> <p>3. Same — a pokeign judgment against a maebied woman. — A foreign judgment against a married woman cannot be enforced in this state, unless some fund be pointed out from which it may be satisfied, consisting of her separate property.</p> <p>i. Same — theib contbacts — jubisdiction op chancees-. — The court of chancery has concurrent jurisdiction with the court of law, over the contracts of married women, and is the more appropriate tribunal to administer the rights of parties under such contracts.</p>