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Title: Fred Lerch v. Claudius H. Barnes
Author : Supreme Court of Florida
Release Date : January 01, 1911
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 59 KB

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HOCKER, J. -- The appellee filed a bill in the Circuit Court of DeSoto County against the appellants to complex specific performance of a contract for the purchase of certain lands. It is alleged that in the chain of title of appellee there is a deed executed by a married woman in which the husband of the married woman did not join. It is alleged that the husband was non compos mentis and that the married woman had been made a free dealer under the statutes providing for such a status (see sections 1955 to 1959 inclusive General Statutes of 1906). There was a demurrer to the bill on the ground that under the laws of Florida a married woman though adjudged to be a free dealer under the statutes was not authorized to convey her separate statutory property by deed executed by herself alone -- the husband not joining in the deed. This demurrer was overruled, and defendants declining to plead further, decrees pro confesso were entered against them, and a final decree also entered in favor of appellee. On appeal here the sole question is the one presented by this demurrer.