Hall v. Collins

1. Where the consideration of a contract made with a husband reaches the wife as an accession to her separate estate, and she retains and enjoys it, as building materials used in the construction of a building upon her lands, slight evidence will be sufficient to establish the husband’s agency in contracting the debt as an obligation against the wife. Pinkston v. Cedar Hill Nursery &c. Co., 123 Ga. 302 (51 S. E. 387); Sheffield v. Sheffield, 39 Ga. App. 271 (146 S. E. 655), and cit.

2. In this suit on account against a married woman, to recover the alleged purchase-price of building materials,…