24 Conn. 207 | Conn. | 1855
The court do**not feel called upon to determine the interesting questions, relating to the powers of a wife, as the agent of her husband, where she has, without cause, abandoned him, in another state, and, unknown to him, has been transacting business • here, as a feme sole, which have been argued before us, in this case ; because, if we admit,—which we do not, except for the purposes of this case,—that a sale of property, acquired by her while thus transacting business, for the purpose of paying a debt contracted in that business, is void, on the ground that the property belongs to the husband, we still think this action must fail; and the city court was correct in ordering the nonsuit.
The action was trover; the gravamen of which is the conversion of the property, for which it is brought. But a
In this opinion, the other judges, Waite and Storks, concurred.
Judgment affirmed.