Daubney v. . Hughes

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The action was brought upon a contract or promise to pay for the board of the defendant's wife, and the evidence tended to establish that when the wife was taken home, in 1870, it was with defendant's consent and promise to pay for her support. On the 16th of March, 1871, the defendant published a notice forbidding all persons from harboring or trusting his wife on his account, "as I shall pay no debts of her contracting after this date," and it was claimed on…