Buckner & Co. v. Davis

Eliza J. Davis, the wife of J. Jones Davis» at the time, a retail dealer in millinery goods and notions in her own name and on her own account, at Monticello, in this state, on the 18th day of September, 1870, bought of H. J. Buckner & Co., wholesale merchants in Louisville, Kentucky, a bill of goods amounting to $665.65, for which they drew on her and she accepted a bill of exchange, payable to their own order, at the Citizens Bank of that city, four months after date.

Several years previous to the purchase of the goods, that is to say, on the 23d day of October, 1867, being at that time the…