Court Opinion

ID: 9829652
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:30:27.308269+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:03.908166
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
The testimony showed that appellees had been dealing with Mrs. Fairbanks for several years and looked to and received payment from her. The goods were sold to her on her own credit and not that of her husband. The husband was not looked to for payments; he never at any time paid any of her debts for twenty years or more. . She paid them out of her own money. The necessaries were fur*199nished to her, and the community property was not contemplated in any of the transactions. For twenty years credit had been extended to Mrs. Fairbanks; the credit, of course, being based on her separate property and none in which the husband was interested. She had paid all former bills and on putting the last account in the shape of the promissory note the husband was not consulted, but the note was signed by the wife who had contracted the account. The evidence showed that the children furnished with necessaries were not the offspring of G. D. Fairbanks, but those of the wife by a former husband, and at least one a grandchild of Mrs. Fairbanks. It is a severe strain on the law for necessaries to include these various relatives of the wife in no way related to the husband, and the plea for necessaries would be much more appealing had they not been purchased by a wife not living with her husband but conducting her own affairs, independent of the husband, and for another man’s children and grandchildren. She should pay for the groceries purchased by her out of her separate estate, upon which the credit was undoubtedly extended.
The motion for rehearing is overruled. .