161 Mass. 58 | Mass. | 1894
This is a bill in equity by a wife to reach and apply certain property of her husband, which, it is alleged, cannot be attached or taken on execution in a suit at law. The wife has filed a petition against her husband in the Probate Court, under Pub. Sts. c. 147, § 33, and an attachment of his property has been ordered by that court, but no property has been found which can be attached. No decree has been rendered under this petition in favor of the wife. The bill was filed for the purpose of reaching certain mortgages and mortgage notes alleged to belong to the husband, and of holding them until the wife can obtain in the Probate Court a decree that the husband should pay her a certain sum or sums of money for her support, and then of applying these mortgages and mortgage notes in some way to the satisfaction of such a decree. It is not necessary to decide whether, if such a decree had been rendered before the bill was filed, the plaintiff could have the assistance of a court of equity in enforcing it, or whether her sole remedy would be in the Probate Court, or on appeal in this court as the Supreme