Supreme Court of Missouri October 15, 1872 (Druhe v. DeLassus)

Adams, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a proceeding in the nature of a bill in equity to charge the separate property of the defendant, Marie J. B. De-Xassus, with the payment for materials furnished her husband, who was her trustee, in improving her property.

The record shows that in 1864 the defendant, Augustus De-Hault DeLassus, as trustee of his wife, Marie J. B.