Case ID: ky-op_3/html/0594-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Robertson:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Sally Davis’s Admr. v. Mary J. Gray, &c.
    Husband and Wife — Necessaries for Wife — Married Woman’s Estate not Bound — Witten Authority.
    No judgment affecting the estate of a married woman, oven for necessaries, can be sustained without the written authority or objection prescribed by section 1, article 2, chapter 47, Revised Statutes.
    APPEAL FROM MERCIER CIRCUIT COURT.
    June 30, 1869.
    Polk, for appellant.
    
    
      Durham & Jacobs, for appellees.
    
   Opinion of the Court by

Judge Robertson:

No judgment affecting the estate of a married woman, even for necessaries, can be sustained without the written authority or obligation prescribed by section 1, article 2, chapter 47 Revised Statutes.

The medical services to Mrs. Davis herself were certainly necessaries, but though she was then covert, ye there was no written authority or acknowledgment.

The statute is absolute without any express or implied qualification or exception, must be strictly construed, and operated inflexibly. This court cannot curtail or relax its literal operation.

Consequently the judgment in this case against the administrator of Mrs. Davis for the medical account against her must be adjudged erroneous, and therefore is reversed, and the cause remanded for a new trial.