McCormick v. F. Altneave & Co.

Citations

• 73 Miss. 86

Syllabus

<p>Husband as Agent of Wife. Supplies fwrnished wife’s farm. Note of Uusbamd for balance due. Liability of wife. Code 1892, g 2293. Account stated. Note evidence of amount due.</p> <p>Where, in an action against a married woman on a note signed by her husband alone, the declaration avers that the note was given to the plaintiff by the husband, as the agent of his wife, in acknowledgment and extension of the balance due for plantation supplies furnished by the plaintiff for, and used upon, her farm, of which the husband was manager, as her agent, and was intended, not to relieve her of any obligation, but to bind her just as if she had signed the same, the action will be treated, on demurrer, as one on an account stated, and the note itself as evidence of the amount ascertained to be due on such accounting, and as importing an obligation for which she is liable under § 2293, code 1892.</p>