Wortman v. Price

Citations

• 47 Ill. 22

Syllabus

<p>1. Harmed women—llow far husband may be agent for the wife unda• the law of 1861. Under the act of 1861, for the protection of married women in their separate property, the husband may act as agent for his wife, in a particular transaction, or generally, for the control of her property, or the investment of her funds. He may lease her property and collect the rents, or invest her money, or change the character of her investments, if authorized by her, and he may do this without subjecting her property to his debts.</p> <p>2. But she cannot make him her agent to engage in trade, to be managed by him, to which all his time and energies must be devoted, without subjecting'the property embarked in such trade and its profits, to the payment of his debts.</p>