Case ID: mich_35/html/0198-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Cubiam:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Margaret Patterson v. David M. Fish.
    
      Married women: Execution against husband: Levy on wife's lands: Injunction. A married woman may file a bill to enjoin sale of her lands upon execution against her husband, though the husband occupy the lands jointly with her as a home; and a general demurrer to such a bill cannot be sustained.
    
      Submitted on briefs October 20,
    
    
      Decided October 25.
    
    Appeal in Chancery from Benzie Circuit.
    This is a bill filed by a married woman to enjoin proceedings to a sale upon a levy of an execution against her husband upon lands belonging to her, -winch they jointly occupy as a home. A general demurrer was interposed to the bill and was sustained by the court below. Complainant appealed.
    
      33. 8. Pratt, for complainant.
    
      Fowler db Farley, for defendant.
   Per Cubiam:

This case is decided by the case of Hill v. Bowman, supra, p. 191. The decree must be reversed, with costs, and the cause remanded with directions that the demurrer be overruled, and that defendant be allowed to answer within twenty days after after service upon him of a copy of the order.