Dyer v. Keefer

Citations

• 51 Ill. 525

Syllabus

<p>1. Married Women—separate property protected against debts of their husbands. A married woman received from her father a draft for $150, payable to her order, with which to purchase a horse. She gave the draft to her husband to deposit in her name. Without her consent, her husband used this money, and to replace it turned over to her a horse, which, after keeping some time, she directed her husband to trade off, which he did for another horse. This latter horse the wife held under her undisputed control, the husband not using him without her consent, for nearly two years, when he was levied upon under an execution against her husband: Sdd, the transaction between the husband and wife appearing to be bona fide, the wife would be protected in her ownership of the horse levied upon, as her separate property, acquired, within the meaning of the act of 1861, from a person other than her husband.</p>