Nash v Inman

Facts

A tailor sued a Cambridge undergraduate for the price of clothes, including eleven fancy waistcoats. The minor was already well supplied with clothes.

Issue

Were the clothes necessaries?

Held

No. They were not suitable to his actual requirements. The tailor failed.

Principle

Necessaries are goods suitable to the minor's station and to their actual needs at the time.

Why it matters

Status is not enough. The minor must actually need the goods.

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