NOT A NECESSITY
Wife Buys Patent Cooker HUSBAND NEED NQT PAY Submitting that the law presumed a wife to have her husband’s authority to make necessary purchases for the house, Mr. D. C. D'Arcy, for the Good Housekeeping Association, Ltd. (in liquidation), applied for judgment in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday against Walter E Chown (Mr. J. L. Stewart), for £4 10/-, the balance owing on a patent waterless cooker bought by his wife from the association. Mr. T. B. McNeil, S.M., gave judgment for defendant, saying he was satisfied that the cooker was not a necessity, and, moreover, that he could not find that there had been any ratification of the purchase on the part of the husband. Evidence which had been called showed that the cooker had been sold to Mrs. Chown, who had paid 17/6 deposit, but had made no further payments. To a letter from the association she replied that her husband would not eat the food that had been cooked in the appliance. The husband, when interviewed, said that his wife would not use the cooker, and that he was not in a position to pay for it. He would like the association to take the cooker back. '
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 266, 6 August 1931, Page 8
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202NOT A NECESSITY Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 266, 6 August 1931, Page 8
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