Shaw v. Allen & Co.

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

In the absence of anything to the contrary, the presumption is that the husband and the wife were living together. The husband (who is the plaintiff in error) does not contend that the coat furnished to his wife should not be considered within the classifica- ’ tí on of necessaries suitable to her condition and habits of life. Cohabitation raises a presumption of the wife’s authority to purchase necessaries on the credit of her husband; and where the husband seeks to avoid liability on account of purchases so made, he has the burden of “showing that the…