James McCreery & Co. v. Martin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief Justice.

McCreery & Company, the plaintiffs below, by this suit seek to compel the defendant, Luther Martin, to ¡Day for goods purchased from time to time by the defendant’s wife at their , store in New York. The goods were purchased by Mrs. Martin while she and her husband were living together, and constituted the first credit *627dealings with the plaintiffs, either of herself or her husband. The plaintiffs’ claim is that the goods purchased were “necessaries," and that, being such, the wife, by reason of the marital relation, had a right…