Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1872

Butler v. Price

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided September 15, 1872

110 Mass. 97

Cases that cite this one

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Keota Mills & Elevator v. Gamble (Okla. 2010)
Arthur & Co. v. Burke (Wash. 1915)
Good v. Ehrlich (Kan. 1903)

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Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

If the letter put- in evidence was proved to have been written by the defendant’s wife, yet there was no evi *98dence that the defendant authorized her to write it or to make a payment upon the note in suit. Such authority cannot be inferred from the relation of husband and wife. The court, therefore, should have ruled, as requested, that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant a verdict for the plaintiff.

Exceptions sustained.

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