34 Fla. 607 | Fla. | 1894
A bill was filed in this case by appellees, a mercantile firm, in June, 1890, against appellants, and, after being amended, it is therein alleged that Minnie Halle was, in 1888, and at the time of filing the bill, a married woman, the wife of Phillip Halle, and during said time she was engaged in the business of buying and selling goods, such as clothing, furnishing goods, and stock of that character, in the city of Jacksonville; that during said time appellees sold her the goods as itemized in accounts filed with the bill, amounting to the sum of $613.75, which she promised to pay, and that said goods were sold upon her sole credit, to become her separate statutory property, and upon the credit of her separate statutory propery, real and personal, described in the bill; that said goods sold to her were for the benefit of her said property, and for the purpose of replenishing her stock of merchandise in the
Certain interrogatories are propounded touching the transaction of the conveyance to Grunthal, but they need not be set out here.
The special prayer is, that the deed to Grunthal be declared fraudulent, and cancelled; that an account be taken of what was due appellees on the accounts mentioned, and that the said separate statutory property of Minnie Halle be sold in accordance with law and the practice of the court, and the proceeds applied to the payment of the claims of appellees, and costs of the suit.
Grunthal, Phillip and Minnie Halle answered the bill, and with their answers filed demurrer. The grounds of demurrer filed by each one are the same, and are: (1) Complainants have not in their bill made such a case as entitled them to any relief against pLemurrants. (2) It does not appear from the bill that complainants have a lien at law or in equity upon the property therein sought to be subjected to sale to pay the debts therein set up.' (8) It does not appear by the allegations of the bill that complainants have any equity capable of being enforced as a lien. This demurrer was overruled, and from the decree overruling it an appeal has been taken.
The demurrer, in our opinion, was properly overruled. In view of what has been said in the case of Halle vs. Einstein, decided at this term, it is not deemed necessary to go into any extended discussion of the points raised on this appeal. They are the same
It appears from the bill that one of the lots sought to be subjected to the payment of property purchased by the married woman was conveyed by her after the purchase was made, and before the bill was filed, but it is alleged that said conveyance was fraudulent and without consideration. If this be true, and it must be so taken on demurrer, the property conveyed would still be subject to the wife’s debt, the same as if such conveyance had not been made.
The decree appealed from is affirmed, and it will be so ordered.