Attorneys Service Co. v. Monk

The Attorneys Service Company, as assignee, brought its action in the Municipal Court of Portsmouth seeking judgment against the defendant on an account for merchandise sold to the defendant’s wife. The merchant ivas not'aware at the time the goods were sold that the purchaser was a married woman, and had charged the account on his books to her under her maiden name, which she gave to him as her real name. The fact was that she and her husband were living apart and that she was at that time receiving from him a small weekly allowance, but it does not appear that this was alimony in the sense…