Parker v. Middlebrook
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of trover, brought in the name of Ephraim Parker against George W. Middlebrook, and tried before the city court for the city of Bridgeport, upon the general issue, on the first Monday of October, 1854. On the trial, it was proved, on the part of the plaintiff, that, until the month of February, 1852, he was a resident of Utica,-in the state of New York, where he resided with his wife and family.
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This was an action of trover, brought in the name of Ephraim Parker against George W. Middlebrook, and tried before the city court for the city of Bridgeport, upon the general issue, on the first Monday of October, 1854. On the trial, it was proved, on the part of the plaintiff, that, until the month of February, 1852, he was a resident of Utica,-in the state of New York, where he resided with his wife and family. In said month and year, he temporarily left his wife and family, and went to the state of Georgia, intending to return in the autumn of said year, which intention he then announced…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, J.
The court do**not feel called upon to determine the interesting questions, relating to the powers of a wife, as the agent of her husband, where she has, without cause, abandoned him, in another state, and, unknown to him, has been transacting business • here, as a feme sole, which have been argued before us, in this case ; because, if we admit,—which we do not, except for the purposes of this case,—that a sale of property, acquired by her while thus transacting business, for the purpose of paying a debt contracted in that business, is void, on the ground that the property belongs to the…
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