115 Pa. 218 | Pa. | 1887
delivered the opinion of the Court, February 7th, 1887.
If courts and counsel would but reflect for one moment on the status of the married woman at common law and then turn to our statutes to ascertain how far the rule of that law has been relaxed, we should have fewer cases like that now before us. At common law the contract of a married woman, even for family necessaries, was void, and the only modification of this rule so far as our commonwealth is concerned, is found in
The judgment is reversed.