Case ID: mich_121/html/0163-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HARRIS v. GATES.
    Married Women — Promissory Notes — Consideration.
    A note executed by a married woman for the surrender of a note of the same amount against her husband, and to prevent the payee therein from attempting to collect the same by attacking a transfer to her by her husband of all his property on the claim that such transfer was voluntary and in fraud pf creditors, is supported by a sufficient consideration to. make it binding on her separate estate. Whelpley v. Stoughton, 112 Mich. 594, followed.
    Error to Shiawassee; Smith, J.
    Submitted June 9, 1899.
    Decided September 12, 1899.
    
      Assumpsit by Isabelle Harris against Helen M. Gates on a promissory note. From a judgment for defendant on.verdict directed by the court, plaintiff brings error.
    Beversed.
    
      Almond G. Shepard and Edwin H. Lyon, for appellant.
    
      Selden S. Miner, for appellee.
   Per Curiam.

Suit upon a promissory note executed by a wife. This case is ruled by Whelpley v. Stoughton, 112 Mich. 594. Any statement of facts or law is unnecessary.

Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered.