127 Ala. 175 | Ala. | 1899
The evidence shows that by the plaintiff’s direction the goods taken in execution as the property of plaintiff’s husband were bought in her name and partly paid for with her money and that the unpaid part of the price was charged to her. As between the present parties it is immaterial whether the vendor knew that plaintiff’s husband was acting for her in the purchase. If ignorant of that fact it may be that the vendors could have avoided the transaction, but they liad also the right to treat it as the plaintiff’s purchase, and so far as appears they have not questioned her ownership. The plaintiff was not by yeason of coverture incapacitated from acquiring property in the goods, and her purchase was none the less effective because in making it she was represented by her husband, or that she had not his written consent. — Lister v. Vowell, 122 Ala. 264; 25 So. Rep. 564; Carter v. Fischer, ante. p. 52.
The bond indemnifying the sheriff was competent evidence to connect the defendant sureties with the alleged trespass, and the court was not bound to limit its effect without being requested to do so.
From what -we have said it follows that there was no error in the refusal of charges 1 and 2. Charge 3 was abstract. There is no evidence that the cotton mentioned was raised on lands of the plaintiff’s husband or at his expense. The evidence does not sustain either plea. It was without contradiction and supports the verdict. The motion for a new trial was properly overruled.
Let the judgment be affirmed.