Craft v. American Agricultural Chemical Co.

Citations

• 81 Fla. 55
• 87 So. 41

Syllabus

<p>1. When a married woman knowingly permits her husband to manage or control her property, or allows him so to deal with it as to induce others to believe that he is acting as her authorized agent, such facts are sufficient to establish the agency in favor of the persons who deal with him in such belief.</p> <p>2. Whatever the social relations between, a husband and wife may be, so long as she permits him to occupy, manage and control her separate statutory property, he is her agent. This agency terminates only when she takes the management of her property out of his hands, and personally assumes” it, or appoints a new agent. And so long as she permits her husband to manage her separate property, that property will be chargeable in equity for the purchase price of goods and materials purchased by him in the. due course of his management, and for its benefit.</p> <p>3. In case a doubt is raised by a decided conflict in the testimony, and there is no outstanding feature of the case resolving the doubt in favor of either party, an appellate court will not disturb the finding of the chancellor.</p>