Morrison v. Evans

1. While the husband is legally bound to support the wife, and where necessaries are furnished to her, in the absence of any express agreement to the contrary, the presumption is that she contracted for them in the right of her general agency for her husband, and that he and not she is liable, it is nevertheless true that a wife, who personally applies to a tradesman for the purchase of groceries, and opens the account in her own name under an express agreement that she herself will pay for the goods, becomes liable upon her obligation thus entered upon. Bell v. Rossignol, 143 Ga. 150 (84 S.…