Wickham v. Traders State Bank

Citations

• 95 Kan. 657
• 149 P. 433
• 1915 Kan. LEXIS 270

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Exemptions — Exempt Automobile — Mortgaged by Husband Alone — Mortgage Void — Decree of Divorce — Divorced Wife ■ Entitled to the Car. A husband doing business in the name of a corporation mortgaged an automobile, asserting it to be the property of such corporation, and later absconded. His wife procured a decree of divorce and was awarded all his personal property within the jurisdiction of the court. She claimed the car under the decree and proved that it was exempt as a necessary implement for her husband’s use in his business. Held, that having established the exempt quality of the property which she as wife took by the decree, she is not estopped or bound by the husband’s representations’ as-to the ownership of the car.</p>