Case ID: ga_179/html/0228-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hutcheson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jones et al. v. Equitable Loan Company et al.
    
   Hutcheson, J.

1. While a wife may contract, she can not bind her separate estate by any contract of suretyship, or by any assumption of the debts of her husband. Code of 1910, § 3007.

No. 9942.

May 17, 1934.

Adhered to on rehearing, August 10, 1934.

Edward F. Taylor and E. W. Maynard, for plaintiffs.

Parle & Strozier, for defendants.

2. The petition in the instant ease alleged suretyship, and prayed for cancellation of a bill of sale to secure debt, and to restrain the transfer or assignment of certain notes. A cause of action was set out, and the court erred in sustaining the general demurrer and dismissing the petition. Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur.