Tuggle v. Duke

1. While a married woman may not contract a debt of suretyship that will bind her, she may, as an original undertaker, become liable for goods-furnished from which she derives no benefit. Freeman v. Coleman, 86 Ga. 590 (12 S. E. 1064). In the instant suit on notes given for the purchase-price of a stock of merchandise there was evidence authorizing a finding that the defendant, a married woman, had become the purchaser of the property for which the notes were given, the plaintiff testifying, without objection, that he sold the property to the defendant, and the evidence disclosing that the…