
    Estate of MARY CLANCY, Deceased.
    [No. 17,292;
    decided August 31, 1898.]
    Separate Property of Wife—Admissions of Husband.—Where it appears that the purchase price of real estate was paid from the separate property of a married woman, and the deed was taken in her name, and the husband, upon her death, avers in his petition for let ters of administration that such property was the separate property of the decedent, and swears to the same effect on the hearing of the petition, and also in the inventory and appraisement, his admissions are, when unexplained, conclusive of the character of the property.
    Separate Property of Wife—Expenditures by Husband.—A husband cannot recover payments voluntarily made by him for repairs, improvements, and the like on the separate property of his wife, nor can he, by making advances for the benefit of such property, acquire any interest therein.
     