Case Name: C. Ludwig Baumann & Co., Brooklyn, Appellant, v. Hyman Burman, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1935-03-15
Citations: 155 Misc. 314
Docket Number: 
Parties: C. Ludwig Baumann & Co., Brooklyn, Appellant, v. Hyman Burman, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 155
Pages: 314–315

Head Matter:
C. Ludwig Baumann & Co., Brooklyn, Appellant, v. Hyman Burman, Respondent.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, Second Department,
March 15, 1935.
Benjamin J. Rabin [Samuel L. Scholer and Harold H. Stern of counsel], for the appellant.
Goldenberg & Meyer [Murray W. Meyer of counsel], for the respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Judgment unanimously reversed upon the law, and new trial granted, with thirty dollars costs to appellant to abide the event. The action is for goods sold and delivered, consisting of furniture and house furnishings. At the time they were ordered and delivered respondent and his wife were living together. A presumption, therefore, arose from those facts that when she bought necessaries consisting of the house furnishings she did so as the agent of her husband, and, in the absence of proof that the latter had already supplied his wife with articles of the same character as those purchased, the husband is liable for the debt. The court, therefore, erred in dismissing the complaint. (Loeser & Co., Inc., v. Lindbeck, No. 207, April term, 1926 [not reported], and cases cited; Altman & Co. v. Durland, 185 App. Div. 114, 118.) The fact that the account was opened in the wife's name does not establish, as a matter of law, that credit was given exclusively to her. (Baccaria v. Landers, 84 Misc. 396; Bendel, Inc., v. Edeaon, 125 id. 433; Best & Co. v. Cohen, [Sup.] 174 N. Y. Supp. 639.)
Present, Cropsey, Lewis and Bonynge, JJ.