Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““It is now settled that a married woman cannot enter into a partnership in a mercantile business with her husband or with any one else. Miller v. Marx & Kempner, supra; Middlebrook Bros. v. Zapp, 73 Tex. 29 , 10 S.W. 732 ; Purdom v. Boyd, 82 Tex. [130] 135, 17 S.W. 606 . And if her separate estate were invested in the business she merely became a creditor of the firm to that extent, and not a partner.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. King v. Matney