Holmes v. Holmes
Holmes v. Holmes
Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff, who took the present appeal, complains that she is aggrieved by the judgment rendered in her favor against her husband, in that said judgment does not allow her a mortgage and privilege on the property of her husband, from the date of his receiving the amount sued for.
The appellee does not pray that the judgment appealed from may be amended in any respect, but submits the judgment to our consideration, expressing his readiness to submit to such judgment as the law and evidence in this case require.
The claim of the plaintiff is merely paraphernal. It consists, under the allegations of the petition, in a sum of five thousand dollars, which, she says, was a donation made to her by her father, and which her husband appropriated to his own use. The record contains no evidence of the claim, except that the judgment appealed from states, that the defendant acknowledged himself indebted to the plaintiff in the amount alleged in the petition ; and the petition does not contain any prayer that the
It appears to us that the judgment complained of is strictly according to the prayer of the plaintiff’s petition, and in accordance with the object of the action. If the appellant is entitled to a mortgage on her husband’s property to secure the amount sued for, it arises from the law itself, and there is perhaps no necessity for mentioning it in the judgment, as a mere omission to recognize it, could not deprive the plaintiff of its effect, if she is really entitled to enforce it. Be this as it may, it will be time enough to enquire into the plaintiff’s alleged right of legal mortgage, if ever it comes in conflict with the rights of her husband’s creditors; but in this case, we cannot give her what she has not demanded.
Judgment affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Mary E. Holmes v. William G. Holmes, Her Husband
- Cited By
- 2 cases
- Status
- Published