Finnigan v. Hibernia Savings & Loan Society

Husband and Wife—Eabnings of Wife.—Under section 168 of the Civil Code, the earnings of the wife are not liable for the debts of the husband.

Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order refusing a new trial. The lower court found that the plaintiff and the defendant Daniel Finnigan were husband and wife, and had been such since the year 1850, and that while this relation existed plaintiff made the sum of $1,874.29, by renting rooms and conducting a saloon business, within five years last past, and that during this time the defendant Daniel Finnigan contributed nothing to the support of the plaintiff or his family, and that plaintiff and defendant did not cohabit, because cohabitation was disagreeable to plaintiff, and because she refused to cohabit with the defendant Daniel Finnigan. She was not a sole trader. She deposited the money in bank, and it was seized under an execution against the husband.