Court Opinion

ID: 7152240
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:01:57.030996+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:15:09.753465
License: Public Domain

OPINION OF THE 0OURT BY
JuD&E PETERS:
The evidence is not sufficient to authorize the conclusion that the cattle sold to Hodgkin were the property of Mrs. Elkin; *332her husband contracted for the purchase of them, and it is not shown that they were paid for with her money.
Simpson, for appellants.

Bquiton, for appellee.

Z. Elkin when he made his assignment in May, 1862, was the renter of his mother’s farm, and had been for several years. After the assignment those living in the immediate vicinity and had opportunities of being informed on the subject saw no change in the manner of conducting the business, and the corn sold to Bush and Bobinson raised on that farm was sold by Z. Ellrin as his own property; it was neither claimed by the wife, nor did he aver' his agency when he sold it; and even if the farm had been rented by the wife, and the surplus products raised on it would have been her separate estate, the evidence does not in this case show an actual and visible change in the relation of the tenancy, but conduces to the conclusion that Z. Elkin was the real renter, as he had been before the assignment. As, therefore, one of the notes of Mrs. Elkin for the land purchased by her was credited by a part of the price of the cattle and the corn, which must be regarded as the property of her husband, and the two sums were sufficient to pay appellee’s debt, we see no error in the judgment, and the same must be affirmed.