Skinner v. Tirrell

This is a bill in equity, in which the plaintiff? who has advanced money to the defendant’s wife while living apart from her husband, which she expended, it is alleged, in the purchase of necessaries, seeks to be subrogated to the rights of the persons furnishing the necessaries, and prays that the defendant may be ordered to pay to her the amount so advanced. The defendant demurred to the bill. The demurrer was sustained and the bill was dismissed, and the plaintiff appealed.

The demurrer was a general one, and it was claimed at the argument, as one ground of it, that the bill did not set out…