Saks & Co. v. Nager

The issue is whether a vendor, after receiving the usual notice from a husband disclaiming liability for his wife’s future debts, may, nevertheless, hold him responsible for subsequent purchases of necessaries even though the store had opened a new charge account in the wife’s name, based upon her credit..

Plaintiff is suing both husband and wife; each defendant, while disavowing personal liability to plaintiff, has, in turn, *856cross-claimed against the other in the event judgment is rendered in favor of the plaintiff.

The parties were married in September, 1968 and shortly thereafter a Saks…