Farquharson v. Brokaw

Plaintiffs sue for necessaries alleged to have been furnished to defendant’s wife between November 16, 1908, and January 21, 1909. Among- other defenses, it is claimed that the articles furnished were not necessaries; that the wife had been amply supplied by her husband with funds, and also that, since December, 1908, the defendant’s wife lived separate and apart from him, receiving a sufficient- weekly allowance that he provided.

Plaintiffs applied to examine defendant before trial (in Nassau county) seeking to prove that the articles delivered were necessaries, and that defendant did not…