Smith v. Fletcher

The plaintiff brings this suit to recover for a bill of goods alleged to have been sold, and delivered to the defendant.

The issues joined in this case, and upon which the parties went to trial, present the questions whether the defendant and his wife lived separate and apart from each other, and whether that separation was the fault of the husband, or of the wife, who purchased the goods, or whether or not the goods were, necessaries.

The plaintiff proved the sale of the goods to the wife of the defendant.

The defendant introduced no evidence to show that their being separate was the fault of…