Case ID: njl_6/html/0446-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ross and Wife against Winners.
    ON CERTIORARI.
    Evidence of the wife’s confessions, made subsequent to the marriage, of a debt due by her previous to the marriage, are inadmissible to charge the husband.
    This action was brought against Boss and wife, on a contract made by the wife before- marriage. Among other testimony which went to the jury, it was proved, that the wife, subsequent to her marriage, had acknowledged the debt, or a part of it.
    
      I. Williamson, for defendant,
    contended, that the wife being a party, her confessions were good evidence.
    
      A.- Ogden and M. Williamson, contra.
   Per Curiam.

The judgment is erroneoús and must be reversed, on the ground, that evidence was admitted to prove the confessions of the wife of a debt contracted previously to her marriage.

Judgment reversed. 
      
       See 6 Term Rep. 680; Phil. Evi. 64,