66 Ky. 210 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1867
delivered the opinion op the court:
The account for necessaries furnished by the appellee, as merchant, to the family of Lucy V. Lee, while her
According to the 1st subsection of section 1, article 2, of 2d vol., Revised Statutes, page 8, her general estate was not liable for the goods furnished, unless she and her husband had recognized the account by a writing, signed by both of them.
Consequently, as. there was no such written recognition, however just the demand might appear to be, the inexorable law exonerates her from the payment of it; and therefore the judgment against her and her committee for the amount of the account cannot be sustained. \
Wherefore, the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded, with instructions to dismiss the action.