Sec 92

It has been already seen4 that a husband is liable for necessaries furnished the wife. Under the head of necessaries are to be included such reasonable supplies of dress and ornament as are suited to the station of the family.5 Maintenance of children, when left to the wife's care, falls under this head ;6 and such is the case with proper furniture;7 and proper service;8 and the legal expenses in well-founded legal proceedings against himself.9 Medical attendance on the wife during sickness,10 and her funeral expenses,11 fall under the same head.

Husband liable for necessaries furnished wife.

1 Boyd v. De la Montagnie, 73 N. Y.

498; Darlington's App., 86 Penn. St.

512.

2 Gamber v. Gamber, 18 Penn. St.

363; Grabill v. Moyer, 45 Penn. St.

533; Kelly's App., 77 Penn. St. 236.

3 Hinde v. Longworth, 11 Wheat. 199 ; Bergay's App., 60 Penn. St. 417; Wilson v. Silkman (1881), 10 Weekly Notes, 304.

4 Supra, sec 84.

5 Peters v. Fleming, 6 M. & W. 42; Bazeley v. Forder, L. R. 3 Q. B. 362 ; Raynes v. Bennett, 114 Mass. 424; Breinig v. Meitzler, 23 Penn. St. 156 ; Schouler, Husband and Wife, sec 101 et seq.; see Willey v. Beach, 115 Mass. 559 ; Mohney v. Evans, 51 Penn. St. 80; Rea v. Durkee, 25 111. 503. For the analogous case of necessaries to infant, see supra, sec 67-8.

6 Bazeley v. Forder, ut supra, Cock-burn, C. J., diss.

7 Hunt v. De Blaquiere, 5 Bing. 550.

8 White v. Cuyler, 6 T. R. 176; Bazeley v. Forder, ut supra.

9 Leake, 2d ed. 574; Grindell v. Godmond, 5 A. & E. 755 ; Turner v. Rookes, 10 A. & E. 47 ; Brown v. Ack-royd. 5 E. & B. 819 ; Baker v. Sampson, 14 C. B. N. S. 383; Wilson v. Ford, L. R. 3 Ex. 63 ; Pierce v. Pierce, 9 Hun, 50; Porter v. Briggs, 38 Iowa, 166; Warner v. Ryan, 28 Wis. 517; but see, contra, as a common law rule, Ray v. Adden, 50 N. H. 82 ; Coffin v. Dunham, 8 Cush. 404 ; Sheldon v. Pendleton, 18 Conn. 417 : Dow v. Eyster, 79 III. 254; Pearson v. Darrington, 32 Ala. 227; see supra, sec 71, infra, sec 122.

10 Harris v. Lee, 1 P. Wms. 482; Mayhew v. Thayer, 8 Gray, 172.

11 Sears v. Giddey, 41 Mich. 90. See for other cases, infra, sec 757, last sentence.