Case ID: ga_76/html/0104-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hall, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wood vs. The Wilson Sewing Machine Company.
    This case has twice been before this court, and on both occasions it was held that the'earnings of a married woman, prior to 1866, who was not a free trader, and not living separately from her husband, did not constitute her independent personal estate, but belonged to her husband, whether such earnings were derived from keeping a boarding-house, or from other labor performed by her; and if her husband took such funds and invested them in land, and took a bond for titles thereto in his own name, his marital rights attached to the property, and no trust could be implied in her favor against a creditor of the husband, who became such while the husband owned the property, and who had no notice of the alleged trust prior to extending the credit; and although the husband subsequently caused a deed to be made to the wife, this did not interfere with the creditor’s rights. These rulings control the case. 68 Ga., 524; 73 Id., 370.
    Judgment affirmed.
    December 15, 1885.
   Hall, Justice.