A Preliminary Assessment of the Effects of Hurricane Rita on U.S. Agriculture

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... AND NOTES---ACCOMMODA'1 i0N Paarxas--Mamuso WOMEN--LIABILITY. Wives indorsing their names on the back of the promissory note of their husbands before delivery. are accommodation Parties, under Rem. & Bal. Code, 3420, defining an accommodation D ?! as one who signed as maker, drawer, acceptor, or indorser Without receiving value, and making such party liable thereon. Husnama AND WXFE--WIFE'S SEPARATE Paorssrr---Assummo Lusmrrr. The rule that a wife's separate estate is not liable for com munity debts does not prevent her from asuming such liability by Reported in 140 Pac. 328. Opinion Per ELLIS, J. 79 Wash. executing with her husband a. promissory note in payment of the debt. BANKRU PTCY---DISCHABGE--COMMUNITY DEBT-----LIABILITY on Co nrzsron. The discharge in bankruptcy of a husband on a community debt does not aflect the right of the creditor to proceed against his wife s separate estate as a codebtor, where she had obligated herself for the debt by signing a note therefor. Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Gilliam, J., entered August 6, 1913, in favor of the defendants, upon agreed facts, in an action on contract. Reversed. Shorett, McLarcn 63-Shorett, for appellant. Morris S Shipley and Paul S. Dubuar, for respondents. Enms, J.--This is an action against the defendant wives on a promissory note which was signed by them and also by their husbands. The husbands were made parties defendant in compliance with the statutory requirements that husbands be joined in suits against married women. Rem. & B81Code, 181 (P. c. 81 11). The action was tried before the court without a jury 11P1'l a written statement of agreed facts, from which it appears that the...