New York Supreme Court November 15, 1855 (Cramer v. Comstock)

Bockes, Justice.

Mr. Justice Parker, in the Albany Fire Insurance Company agt. Bay, (4 Barb. 407-415,) remarks that in all cases where the wife has a separate estate, no matter how it was created, it may be made liable to the payment of her note or bond given on the credit of it; and she has, in equity, the same power over it, and may sell it or bind it by mortgage, as if she were 'a feme sole.