Mott v. Grunhut

Charles P. Daly, Chief Justice.

This action was brought against the defendant to recover a bill of groceries, such as families generally use. The defendant’s wife who was living with her husband, bought groceries from the plaintiff for some time for cash. She then applied for credit, representing to him that she was keeping boarders; that she would pay the bill, but did not want her husband to know about it; and as she was living with her husband, as the *545plaintiff testified, “ in a nice house in Abingdon square,” and he supposed she had means, he opened an account with her, charging the…