McDonald v. Hurst, Purnell & Co.

Citations

• 86 Va. 885
• 11 S.E. 536
• 1890 Va. LEXIS 56

Syllabus

<p>L Married women— Separate estate—Bill—Demurrer.—Where a hill against husband and wife to subject her separate estate to judgments against them, fails to charge that, at the time she signed the notes whereon the judgments were had, she had separate property, and that she signed them with intent, expressed or implied, to charge it, held, a demurrer lies.</p> <p>'2. Commissioner’s report—Exceptions.—Case at bar presents an instance where the report of the separate property of a married woman was too uncertain for the court to base a decree of sale thereon.</p> <p>3. Idem—Cases Distinguished.'—In Frank & Adler v. Lillienfield, 33 Gratt., 397, the wife did endorse the blank negotiable note intending to charge her separate estate.</p>