Case ID: ny-super-ct_25/html/0601-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

George W. Coster, plaintiff and appellant, vs. Mary Ann Isaacs, defendant and respondent.
    It was decided in this case that a married woman, carrying on a separate business, is liable for' contracts made therein; and in an action on such a contract, an averment that in making it she represented herself as making it for the uses of such business, is sufficient.
    Heard in general term, before Bosworth, Ch. J., and Moncrief and Robertson, JJ.,
    February 21,1863;
    decided April 25, 1863.
   See the demurrer and the appeal from the order thereon, with the opinion of the court at general term, reported in 16 Abbott’s Pr. 323.