Harrisburg National Bank v. Bradshaw

Citations

• 178 Pa. 180
• 35 A. 629
• 1896 Pa. LEXIS 1148

Syllabus

<p>Married women — Accommodation indorser — Renewal of antenuptial indorsement — Act of June 8, 1893.</p> <p>A woman who has indorsed a promissory note for the accommodation of another, before her marriage, may after marriage renew such indorsement, and she will not be relieved from liability by the act of June 8, 1893, P. L. 345, which provides that she may not “ become accommodation endorser, maker, guarantor or surety for another.” In such a case she does not enter a new obligation for the benefit of another, but she continues and extends for her own benefit an existing obligation by which she was bound. It is immaterial that the bank failed to protest the original note, or that there were intervals of days or even weeks between the maturity of some of the renewal notes indorsed after marriage and the renewal thereof, if it was the intention of the parties that there should be no gap, and that the married woman was to continue her obligation entered into before marriage.</p> <p>Where a married woman has power to renew an indorsement after marriage she may do it by her attorney, and if the power under which her attorney acts is not broad enough, it is competent for her to ratify and confirm his act.</p>