Case ID: me_3/html/0050-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "But the Court", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte Thomes.
    A ’feme covert cannot bind herself, by an executory contract, to convey her own lands, even though'her husband join with her in the obligation.
    Nor can her administrator be empowered, under Sfaf.'1821, ch. 52, sec. 13, to carry such contract into effect by executing a deed.
    
      Mrs. Mahan and her husband, in her life time, entered into a contract with the petitioner Thornes, to convey to him certain lands belonging to her, upon payment of a certain sum of money ; which being paid, and she having since deceased, he now preferred his petition to this Court, stating these facts, and thereupon praying that her administrator might be empowered to execute a deed, pursuant to Stat. 1821, ch. 52, sec. 13.
    
   But the Court

said that the contract being executory, it was not binding on the wife, she being a feme covert ; — and that therefore they could not, under the statute, grant any authority to her administrator to convey the estate. The administrator can be empowered only in those cases where the intestate was legally bound. So the petitioner took nothing by his petition.