Case ID: nj-eq_5/html/0016-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Chancellor.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JOHN ROBBINS v. GEORGE D. ABRAHAMS AND HIS WIFE, AND JAMES BURROWS, TRUSTEE OF THE WIFE.
    The joint and several answer of a married woman and her trustee, .to a bill against her trustee, her husband and herself, put in without leave of the court, may be suppressed for irregularity.
    In this case, the joint and several answer of Phebe Abrahams, wife of George D. Abrahams, and of her trustee, James Burrows, had been put in‘without the leave or order of the court. The husband had not answered.
    C. S. Green moved to suppress the answer, and cited Story’s Eq. Pl. § 71; Milford’s Pl. 105; 1 John. Ch. P. 24, and other authorities.
    
      P. D. Vroom, contra, admitted the general rule, but submitted whether, the trustee having joined in the answer, it should be wholly suppressed.
   The Chancellor.

A wife cannot answer separately from her husband, without leave of the court. The answer will be suppressed, and the defendants will be ordered to answer by the first day of the next term.

Motion granted, and order accordingly.

Cited in Collard v. Smith, 2 Beas. 45; Vanderveer v. Holcomb, 8 C. R Gr. 558.