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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
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72 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
1846,) a part thereof was taken and sold under an execution
for the individual debts of her husband, and that the residue
has been disposed of by him in payment of his individual debts,
and she insists that. inasmuch as the order on the attorney was
given for the individual debt of her husband, and without con-
sideration being received by her, she is not bound by it.
It appears, by an exhibit returned with one-of the commis-
sions, that the bill for this furniture was rendered against
John H. Williams alone, and it is in evidence, from the letters
of the complainants, returned under the same commission, that
he gave his individual note for the money, which the complain-
ants procured to be discounted at one of the banks in Baltimore.
And in the whole series of letters from the complainants to the
said Williams, from November, 1844, to February, 1845, nothing
is to be found indicating an impression on the part of the com-
plainants that Mrs. Williams was responsible to them for their
claim.
Not only in the letters, between these dates, is there nothing
from which it can be inferred that the complainants trusted
Mrs. Williams, or looked to her separate estate for satisfaction,
but it is manifest from their letters to Williams, of the 8th of
March, 1815, that the credit was given to him, upon the faith
of representations which he had made to them with regard to
his property. That letter is in these terms :
"BALTIMORE, 5th March, 1845.
To J. H. WILLIAMS,
Sir—In reply to your letter, dated the 28th of February, I
have to state, that if you do not forthwith pay your note, now due
to Tarr & Blass, I will commence a criminal prosecution against
you for swindling. You will well recollect that you came to
our warerooms, and represented yourself to be the owner of a
fine farm in Harford county, which you had recently purchased,
and for which you had paid $16,000, and that you had ample
means to pay for all your purchases. It was under these re-
presentations of yours to me, that you obtained such credits.
I shall wait four days, (until next Monday,) for your reply to
this, after which period, in the absence of some satisfactory

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