Leinkauf & Strauss v. Barnes
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Noxubee county. Hon. S. H. Terral, Judge. The opinion states the case. Section 1177 of the code is applicable to other business as well as farming, and the words, “or any of her means,” are not to be restricted to things of the same character as those enumerated in the preceding part of the section.
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From the circuit court of Noxubee county. Hon. S. H. Terral, Judge. The opinion states the case. Section 1177 of the code is applicable to other business as well as farming, and the words, “or any of her means,” are not to be restricted to things of the same character as those enumerated in the preceding part of the section. It might be plausible to contend that this clause and the words, “ and to operate and cany on business in his own name or on his own account,” refer to the preceding enumeration, but for the concluding language : “ But all business done with the means of the wife by the…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
This appeal is from the judgment of the circuit court sustaining a demurrer to the declaration. The facts stated are, that W. O. Barnes, the husband of appellee, was engaged in transacting a mercantile business in his own name, and in the course of such business contracted the debt sued on with the plaintiffs; that the appellee was the owner of a certain sum of money, to wit, the sum of two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, which sum her said husband used and employed in the said business by him transacted • that plaintiffs had no notice of any contract or agreement between the…
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