Case Name: Caroline Sell v. George Miller
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1860-12
Citations: 11 Ohio St. 331
Docket Number: 
Parties: Caroline Sell v. George Miller.
Judges: 
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 11
Pages: 331–331

Head Matter:
Caroline Sell v. George Miller.
Motion for leave to file a petition in error, to reverse the judgment of the district court of Yan Wert county.
Murray, Reid & Alexander, for the motion.
Edson & De Puy, contra.

Opinion:
By the Court.
Where a married woman over eighteen, but under twenty-one years of age, has her domicile,and joins with her husband in the execution of a mortgage, within a foreign jurisdiction, where the age of majority is fixed at twenty-one years, upon real estate situate in Ohio, held: That such mortgage is not invalid for want of capacity on her part to contract; the capacity to contract, in respect to immovables, being governed by the law of the situs, and not by the law of the domicil.
Motion overruled.