Samuel Freeman Miller

“ It would be a queer construction of the statute, looking at its manifest purpose, to hold that it meant, though her property shall never come under his control, and he shall acquire no interest in it, and it shall never be liable for his dobts, the use and possession, the rents and profits of it, may be made liable to his debts as long as he lives. ”

“ It is always understood that the one dollar in such connection is merely nominal, and is never actually paid. In this case it means no more than that nothing was paid by the trustees, who took no beneficial interest. It neither contradicts nor varies this statement to show that a valuable consideration passed from Mrs. Hitz to her husband for his conveyance of his life estate to the trustees for her benefit. ”

“ It enacted that 'the rents, issues, and profits of the real estate of any married woman, and the interest of her husband in her right in any real estate which belonged to her before marriage, or which she may have acquired by gift, grant, devise, or inheritance during coverture, shall, during coverture, be exempt from attachment or levy of execution for the sole debts of her husband: * * * provided, this act shall not affect any attachment or levy of execution already made.' Comp. ”

“ This is a bill in chancery brought by the bank against John Hitz, Jane C. Hitz, his wife, and Metzerott and Cross, trustees, to declare void a deed, so far as it affects rights of the bank, made by Hitz and wife to Metzerott and Cross, as trustees, for the benefit of the wife. The deed was made December 9, 1878, and filed for record in the proper office, May 13, 1879. The property conveyed, which was real estate in the city of Washington, came to Mrs. Hitz by inheritance from her father, and by the birth of children before the married woman's act of congress of April 10, 1869, (16 St. 45.) ”