Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Union Trust Company v. Grosman…
“ It is one thing for a Court to decline to be an instrument for depriving citizens belonging to the jurisdiction of their property in ways not intended by the law that governs them, another to deny its offices to enforce obligations good by the lex domicili and the lex loci contractus against women that the local laws have no duty to protect. ”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Union Trust Company v. Grosman…
“ But when the suit is brought in a court of the domicile there is no room for doubt. It is extravagant to suppose that the courts of that place will help a married woman to make her property there liable in circumstances in which the local law says that it shall be free, simply by stepping across a State line long enough to contract. ”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Union Trust Company v. Grosman…
“ In such a case very possibly an Illinois Court might decide that a woman could not lay hold of a temporary absence from her domicile to create remedies against her in that domicile that the law there did not allow her to create, and therefore that the contract was void. ”
