Johnson v. Jones

Citations

• 82 Miss. 483

Syllabus

<p>Husband and Wife. Code 1892, $ 2293. Family supplies. Agency of husband. Scope extended. Wife’s conduct.</p> <p>A wife (being under our constitution fully emancipated from all disability on account of coverture, constitution 1899, § 94)- may by ber conduct extend tbe scope of ber busband’s statutory agency as limited by Code 1892, § 3293, providing that where, without a written recorded contract between husband and wife changing tbe relation, tbe husband; carries on business with' tbe means of tbe wife, such business shall be held, to -be on ber account by tbe husband as ber agent, and making ber liable to persons dealing with him without notice for debts contracted in tbe course of such business.</p>