A BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

Evening Star, Issue 3741, 18 February 1875, Page 3

A BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

A breach of promise case between Jews occupied the attention of the Court of Common Pleas, London, on December 11. The plaintiff, a Mies Borenfolt, is a young lady about twenty-six years of age, who, since her mother’s death in March last, bad resided with her brother. The defendant, whose name is Philips, is a pawnbroker at Sheerness. After courting plaintiff for several months, sending her love-letters, and visiting her and her aunt for some time at' Ramsgate, he wrote her a letter, saying that he could not marry_her, mid on being called on by her relatives said that if an action were brought against bins he wao able to pay, and added, “Juries as a rule never give much in cases of thin cort. ” Defendant, who was called as a witness iu bis defence, said he felt a very warm affection <or the lady until ho visited Ramsgate, where be was so much disgusted with her habits and manners that he made up his mind to discontinue the connection. She had been represented to him as an educated young lady, and he found ner very different Though after leaving Kamsgate disgusted with her, and having made up his mind to have nothing farther to do with her, he wrote letters to her upon his return, in which he called her his “Dear Julia,' and remained her “ ever true and affectionate lover.” This and another letter, telling the lady that he “ got to the station just to find the train leaving, and was very much put out to know I was disappointing you,” he admitted were “a tissue of lies.” The jury, without leaving the box, returned a verdict for plaintiff ; damages, L3OO.