Farman v. Chamberlain

The appellees were the plaintiffs below, and 'in their complaint alleged that the appellant was indebted to Frances Chamberlain, the wife of James Chamberlain, her co-appellee, for services rendered by said Frances, in caring for and nursing one Josephine Fisher, and for money paid out by said Frances Chamberlain, at appellant’s request, in the sum of five hundred dollars.

Appellant urges that a demurrer which he addressed to the complaint ought to have been sustained. The argument is, that, as Frances Chamberlain was a married woman, her ’husband was the only party who could maintain an…