Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

46 A.D. 347

Bradt v. Shull

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1899-07-01

Appeal by the defendant, Mary Shull, from a judgment of the County Court of Fulton county in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Fulton on the 11th day of July, 1899, affirming a judgment of a justice of the peace in favor of the plaintiff. .

Relies on Edwards v. . Woods

Decided 1899-07-01

Herrick, J.:

¶1This is an action to recover the purchase price of groceries.

¶2The defendants are husband and wife, living together as such. Part, of the groceries were purchased by the husband and part by the wife. ■ The plaintiff’s, testimony.-is that the .groceries .vwefce purchased for the use of the defendants’ family. The presumption is that a married woman who purchases, groceries for the use of the *348fainily, does so as the agent of her husband". ' (Lindholm v. Kane; 92 Hun, 369.)

¶3The husband was legally liable for such groceries and the wife was not, either for what her husband or what she purchased. (Edwards v. Woods, 131 N. Y. 350, 352.)

¶4• The goods were all charged to the husband by the plaintiff at the time of the purchase. The wife did not agree to become personally responsible for the indebtedness." The judgment, as against the defendant Mary Shull, should, therefore, be reversed.

¶5All concurred.

¶6Judgment of the County Court and of the justice’s, as against the appellant, Mary Shull, reversed, with costs in' both courts and of this appeal., •

/46/ad/347 · .json · Public domain