Case Name: EDMUND C. BOWIE and VIOLETTA L. BOWIE vs. JAMES M. MUNROE, Assignee
Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1895-04
Citations: 82 Md. 642
Docket Number: No. 8
Parties: EDMUND C. BOWIE and VIOLETTA L. BOWIE vs. JAMES M. MUNROE, Assignee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland Reports
Volume: 82
Pages: 642–642

Head Matter:
EDMUND C. BOWIE and VIOLETTA L. BOWIE vs. JAMES M. MUNROE, Assignee.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. Reversed.
Bowie executed a mortgage to secure a loan to him. His wife united in the mortgage and also signed jointly with him promissory notes for the principal and interest. Upon' default in payment, the property was sold under a power contained in the mortgage and there being a deficiency the mortgagee obtained in the equity proceeding a decree in personam against Bowie for the same. And he then instituted an action at law on the note against Bowie and wife to recover such deficiency. He took a non-pros, as to Bowie and judgment was rendered against the wife alone. Held, that the judgment should have been either for or against both husband and wife, and the plaintiff could not take the judgment against the wife alone; also, that the decree in personam against Bowie did not release him from liability to suit on the note jointly with his wife.
Daniel R. Magmder and James W. Owens, for appellants. James M. Munroe, for appellee.
No. 8,
April term, 1895.

Opinion:
Recorded in Liber J. S. F. No. 2, etc,, folio 791, of " Opinions Unreported."