60 Miss. 870 | Miss. | 1883
delivered the opinion of the court.
In Robinson v. Stadeker, 59 Miss. 3, we left it an open question whether a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace against a married woman was void, if the record and the proceedings were silent as to the facts that the debt was such an one as the defendant had capacity to contract, and that she was the owner of a separate estate. That question we answer in the negative. In a proceeding before a justice there are no written pleadings required, and only by a recital in the judgment could the facts be made to appear. The office of justice of the peace is usually filled by men unlearned in the law, and their courts are frequently held in remote sections
The decree is reversed, demurrer sustained, and bill dismissed.