G. E. Crawford & Co. v. Gamble

Citations

• 22 Fla. 487

Syllabus

<p>1. A bill in equity which seeks to subject property of a married woman to the payment of a debt for money loaned and goods sold her during coverture, should disclose whether she held the property by a legal right, as her “separate statutory property,” or by deed creating in her an “equitable separate estate.”</p> <p>2. In the former case, the laws regulating the mode in which a married woman can dispose of or charge her separate property would apply to any attempted disposition or effort to charge it by her ; in the latter, the deed creating it would furnish the only method by which it could be disposed of or charged, provided such method was not in contravention of law.</p> <p>3. When a bill filed for the purpose mentioned in first head note does not show by which of the above mentioned tenures she holds the property, a demurrer theretoshould be sustained.</p> <p>4. Merchandise purchased by a married woman who is conducting a mercantile business in her own name is her separate statutory property.</p>