Mandell Bros. v. Fogg

This is an action brought in Massachusetts by an Illinois .corporation to recover from a wife the price of goods sold to her husband. The husband was a citizen of Massachusetts, and both the husband and the wife were temporarily in Chicago, when the husband bought the goods of the plaintiff. At the trial “ the plaintiff conceded that there was no evidence of a contract liability on the part of the defendant, . . . but . . . claimed the right to recover in this suit by virtue of ” the following statute of Illinois, which was put in evidence: “ The expenses of the family and of the education of…