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40 Mo. 61

Bauer v. Bauer

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided March 15, 1867

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1867-03-15

Louis Land Court. A promissory note executed by a married woman is not void, and she may be sued on such note — Claflin v. Yan Wagoner, 32 Mo. 252. The justice had jurisdiction — R. C. 1855, p. 925, § 3. This has been repeatedly decided by the courts. In Barton v. Beers, 21 How.

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Decided 1867-03-15

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Holmes, Judge,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2It appears that an execution had been issued from the clerk’s office of the St. Louis Land Court upon a transcript of a judgment before a justice of the peace, filed therein, and that upon motion the Land Court recalled the execution and set aside the judgment of the justice. It further appears by he bill of exceptions that this judgment was rendered against Catherine Bauer, in a suit by Ignatz Bauer against Jacob *63Bauer and Catherine his wife, upon a note executed by her while a married woman, and that she was “possessed in her own right in fee” of certain land described. It seems to have been supposed that this gave her a separate estate in respect of this property, and that her note was valid as made in respect of her separate estate. This was altogether a mistake ; no separate estate was thereby created. Her note was void for want of capacity to make it. The judgment was irregular, if not absolutely void.

¶3The statute provides that such judgments, from the time of filing the transcript, “ shall be under the control of the court where the transcript is filed ; may be revived and carried into effect in the same manner, and with like effect, as judgments of Circuit Courts”—R. C. 1855, p. 961, § 19. We think the Land Court had jurisdiction not only to recall the execution, but to set aside the judgment, and that the action of the court upon the motion was entirely correct and proper.

¶4Judgment affirmed;

the other judges concur.
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