Sheffield v. Sheffield

In a suit on notes executed by a married woman, to which she pleaded that the notes were given for a debt of her husband and were without other consideration, where the evidence authorized the inference that the notes were given to cover an account for supplies sold by the plaintiff to the defendant’s husband upon his own credit and responsibility, notwithstanding the supplies may have been used by the husband in the operation of a farm on land of the wife, it was error to instruct the jury in such language as to imply that if the notes were given for supplies obtained by the husband for the…