Ellis v. American Mortgage Co.

Citations

• 36 S.C. 45
• 15 S.E. 267
• 1892 S.C. LEXIS 74

Syllabus

<p>1. Married Women’s Contracts. — A married woman signed an application for a loan of money, describing the land offered by her as security, and declaring that the broker who negotiated the loan was her agent in procuring it for her ; she went to the broker to get the money, and signed notes and mortgage and receipt for the money. Held to be proof sufficient that the money was borrowed by the married woman for herself.</p> <p>2. Ibid. — The money being borrowed by the married woman, she had full power to give note and mortgage of'her separate estate to secure the repayment of the loan.</p>