Nunn v. W. H. Kennedy & Son, Inc.

PRICE, Judge.

This appeal concerns the authority of a wife to act as a mandatary for her husband in the execution of a contract to buy and sell an advance cotton crop.

The pertinent factual' background and contentions of the parties are concisely set forth in the trial judge’s reasons for judgment as follows:

“Petitioner, John Knox Nunn, Jr., seeks judgment declaring a certain instrument dated January 24, 1973 to be null and void and of no effect. The act in question purports to be a contract for the sale of plaintiff’s 1973 cotton crop to the defendant, W. H. Kennedy & Son, Inc. Mr. Nunn…