Stripling v. Crisp County Lumber Co.

1. A married woman having a separate estate may engage her husband to act as her agent in the transaction of any business she may have, and, if she does so, his acts as such agent stand, as to her and the world, as do the acts of any other agent. Wells v. Smith, 54 Ga. 262. But even if he purports to act as her agent, persons dealing with him are bound to inquire as to his authority so to act. Mickleberry v. O’Neal, 98 Ga. 42, 51 (25 S. E. 933). The mere fact that a wife may have received the benefit of goods bought by her husband on his own credit would not, whether he was solvent or…