Case ID: ohio-st_11/html/0331-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Caroline Sell v. George Miller.
    Motion for leave to file a petition in error, to reverse the judgment of the district court of Yan Wert county.
    
      Murray, Reid & Alexander, for the motion.
    
      Edson & De Puy, contra.
   By the Court.

Where a married woman over eighteen, but under twenty-one years of age, has her domicile,and joins with her husband in the execution of a mortgage, within a foreign jurisdiction, where the age of majority is fixed at twenty-one years, upon real estate situate in Ohio, held: That such mortgage is not invalid for want of capacity on her part to contract; the capacity to contract, in respect to immovables, being governed by the law of the situs, and not by the law of the domicil.

Motion overruled.