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62 Misc. 606

Blendermann v. Wray

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · decided 1909-04-15

<p>Husband and wife — Wife’s separate estate — Liabilities and charges — Necessaries and family supplies.</p> <p>Taking case from jury and nonsuit — Weight and sufficiency of evidence ■ ' .— Evidence giving rise to doubt or difference of opinion.</p> <p>In an action to recover for groceries alleged to have been sold to a married woman, where it appears that the plaintiff had sold her groceries when she was married to a former husband and after his death, but that after her remarriage all goods were presumably for use in the joint household of herself and her second husband, it is a question for the jury whether the groceries were furnished on her own account or whether they were furnished to her as agent for her husband, and it was error to direct a verdict for defendant.</p>

Decided 1909-04-15

Per Curiam.

¶1This is an action brought by a grocer, upon an account stated for goods, which, he claims, were sold to the defendant. It appears that the plaintiff had furnished goods to the defendant when she was married to a man other than her present husband, and also when she was a widow, after his death; but all the goods on the alleged account stated were furnished after her remarriage to her present husband and, presumably, for use in their joint household. Under these circumstances, it is a question of ■ fact for the jury to decide whethér these goods were fur*607pished to this defendant, upon her own credit, and whether, while acting for herself and not as agent for her husband, under all the circumstances of the case, including the sending of accounts to this defendant, there was an account stated with this defendant. The court below, also, incorrectly excluded the pass-book, after the plaintiff had shown that it was in defendant’s possession until after April 5, 1907; because this evidence was material upon the question of whom he was giving credit to and also upon the question whether, as a matter of fact, this defendant was acting for herself or as agent for her husband. The other exclusion appears to be correct.

¶2Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide event.

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