While we do notentirely agree with’the reasoning of His Honor, we concur with him in his conclusion, and hold that the demurrer was properly overruled.
The distributive share of E. C. Wiggins in the hands of her husband, C. W. Wiggins, as administrator of her father, Neill 0. McCormac, by virtue of article ten, section six, of the constitution of 1868, is her sole and separate estate, and under section 56 of the Code of Civil Procedure, where the action concerns her separate property, she may sue alone; so she may sue and be sued, alone, when the action is between herself and her husband; and she may sue her husband, or be sued by him, alone. Shuler v. Millsap, 71 N. C., 297. As this, then, is an action which concerns her separate estate, and by section 62 of the code, all persons should be joined as plaintiffs who are united in interests, unless the consent of any one who should be joined as plaintiff, cannot be obtained, such person maybe made defendant, the reason thereof being stated in the complaint. According then to this rule of practice, E. C. Wiggins ought to have been made a party plaintiff, and should not have been *280made a defendant without her refusal to he made a plaintiff, and that fact stated in the complaint.
In the complaint, as originally filed, she was omitted to-be made a party, and the defendant C. W. Wiggins, in his answer objected to the complaint, for. the want of parties. The plaintiffs then obtained leave of the court to amend the complaint and make her a party defendant to the suit. A summons was regularly issued and served upon her as a defendant, and when she was thus brought into court, if she bad been willing to take sides with the plaintiffs against her husband she could have applied to the court to be permitted to become a plaintiff in the proceeding, and the court no doubt would have promptly ordered a change in her position on the record, for the court has the power and will always exercise-it so to adjust the relation of parties as to meet the ends of justice.
From the fact that no sueh application was made, and from the known general disinclination of married women to- be placed in antagonism to their husbands, i-t is to be presumed that she was unwilling to become a plaintiff against her husband, and under the circumstances of the case, we do not think the fact needed to- have been stated in the complaint.
There is no error; the demurrer must be overruled. Lek this be certified to the superior court of Robeson county, that further proceedings may be had in conformity to this opinion and the law.
No- error. Affirmed.