HARRIS v. CROWDER

No. CC938.

322 S.E.2d 854 (1984)

Jeff HARRIS v. Marvin C. CROWDER, et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

November 20, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Hurt, Charleston, for plaintiff.

William W. Pepper, Pepper & Nason, Charleston, for defendants.


NEELY, Justice:

Our task today, for the first time in West Virginia decisional law, is to determine whether creditors can execute upon a husband's undivided interest in property held jointly with his wife. In the case before us the ineluctable logic of received property law strains in one direction while common humanity and sound public policy strain in the other.

Marvin C. Crowder and Mary Ann Crowder, his wife, bought their family house from Mitchell and...

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