Schnabel v. Betts

Citations

• 23 Fla. 178

Syllabus

<p>1. Beal estate of the wife will be charged in equity with the value of improvements which she causes to be built thereon.</p> <p>28. The insolvency of the husband is not a necessary condition to the power of the wife to so charge her real estate.</p> <p>3. The husband is an incompetent witness in a civil suit against his wife, except in a suit between husband and wife for divorce.</p> <p>4. This court will, where the evidence is before it, and the decree of the court below is for too large an amount, correct such decree and render here a final decree for the amount the evidence shows to be due.</p>