R. & E. BUILDERS, INC. v. Chandler

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• describing “common law legal fiction that a husband and wife are one person for most legal purposes[]”
• rejecting common law rule that wife’s legal existence merged with that of her husband
• a wife cannot be held liable on a contract between her husband and a third party on the sole basis of the husband-wife relationship
• rejected common law rule that wife's legal existence merged with that of husband
• rejected common law rule that wife’s legal existence merged with that of husband
• modern statutes attempt to accord wives legal rights equal to husbands

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).