Frost v. Knapp

Citations

• 10 Pa. Super. 296
• 1899 Pa. Super. LEXIS 275

Syllabus

<p>Married woman — Crops on farm, rented by her exempt from husband's creditors.</p> <p>A married woman has the right to engage in business on her own account as if she. were a feme sole, and the proceeds of such business whether profits or crops from a farm rented by her are secure against her husband’s creditors.</p> <p>A married woman owning a separate estate rented a farm which she managed. Held, that crops raised on the farm are exempt from seizure by her husband’s creditors. The fact that she expected to pay the rent from the proceeds of her labor and skill does not invalidate her title to them, nor does the fact that her husband may have contributed his labor on the work of the farm.</p>