Brooks v. Barkley

Citations

• 72 Miss. 320

Syllabus

<p>1. Husband and Wife. Money advanced to %>ay debts. Wife’s liability.</p> <p>Where one conducting' Ms wife’s plantation, not on his own account but as her agent, contracts a debt for plantation supplies, she is liable therefor; and a third person who advances him, as ag'ent for the wife, money with which he pays the debt, may recover the amount from her.</p> <p>2. Same. Plantation supplies. Wife’s liability.</p> <p>Where one thus conducting his wife’s plantation as her agent, contracts a debt for plantation supplies, her liability is not affected by taking' his note therefor, there being' no contract to release her. Gookv. Ligón, 54 Miss., 368.</p> <p>3.-Same. Wife as principal. Notice of this immaterial.</p> <p>In such case, whether the credit was given to the husband as the wife’s agent, or to him alone in ig-norance of the fact that the wife was in fact principal, she is liable. Porter v. Staten, 64 Miss., 421.</p>