Case Name: JANE WELSH and EMMA SKINNER, Respondents, v. FERGUS COCHRAN and others, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1874
Citations: 9 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 675
Docket Number: 
Parties: JANE WELSH and EMMA SKINNER, Respondents, v. FERGUS COCHRAN and others, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Supreme Court Reports (Hun)
Volume: 9
Pages: 675–675

Head Matter:
JANE WELSH and EMMA SKINNER, Respondents, v. FERGUS COCHRAN and others, Appellants.
Married woman—property purchased by—when protected by court of equity.
Property purchased, by a married woman, with money which she had in England prior to her marriage, will be protected, by a court of equity, from her husband, and be used for her support.
When the wife uses such money in the purchase of property, her husband mating no objection thereto, and takes the title thereto in her own name, she acquires a legal title, which her husband’s creditors cannot gainsay or question.
Appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon the verdict of a jury, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.
A. C. & M. H. Ellis, for the appellants.
Oscar Frisbie, for the respondents.

Opinion:
Opinion by Barnard, P. J.
Present — Barnard, P. J., Tappen and Talcott, JJ.
Judgment and order denying new trial affirmed, with costs.