Court Opinion

ID: 9810306
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 21:46:06.175297+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:39:34.283225
License: Public Domain

Clare, C. J.,
concurring: The General Assembly has by express enactment recognized and prescribed that married women are entitled to their 'own earnings. Laws 1913, ch. 13, provides: “The earnings of a married woman by virtue of any contract for her personal service, and any damage for personal injuries, or other torts sustained by her, can be recovered by her suing alone, and such earnings or recovery shall be her sole and separate property as fully as if she had remained unmarried.”
This seems to have been clearly provided by the Constitution, Art. X, sec. 6, which provides: “The real and personal property of any female in this State, acquired before marriage,'and all property, real and personal, to which he may, after marriage, become in any manner entitled, shall be and remain the sole and separate estate and property of such female.” But it being thought that Price v. Electric Co., 160 N. C., 450, filed 20 November, 1912, threw some doubt upon the proposition, the General Assembly very promptly after it convened passed as one of its first statutes chapter 13, Laws 1913, above set out, thus placing the matter beyond controversy.