Finnigan v. Hibernia Savings & Loan Society
This text of 63 Cal. 390 (Finnigan v. Hibernia Savings & Loan Society) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering California Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The respondents’ proposition in this case is, that money earned by a wife may be taken for the debt of her husband. The question is solved by a provision of the Code not referred to by counsel on either side. It is section 168 of the Civil Code, and reads: “ The earnings of the wife are not liable for the debts of the husband.”
That part of the judgment appealed from, together with the order denying the motion for a new trial, reversed, and cause remanded,
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63 Cal. 390, 1883 Cal. LEXIS 471, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/finnigan-v-hibernia-savings-loan-society-cal-1883.