GIFTS TO FIANCEE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 182, 19 August 1937, Page 5

GIFTS TO FIANCEE

i— Press Association.

Action for Recovery UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES

By Telegrap!

WELLINGTON, This Day. Holding that a suitor is not entitled to maintain an action to recover moneys or other gifts giyen to her fianeee unless he proves that they were given eoaditionally on the marriage taking place, Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., to-day gave judgment in an action by a man against the father of his fianeee. The eircumstances were unusual in that the girl hecame afflieted with a. serious complaint from which eventually she died. Plaintiff paid various surns to her while they were engaged. to ( enable her to buy comf orts while she was nndergoing treatment at a sanatorium and to take a trip to Samoa. After she lcft the sanatori.um she died intestate, but the estate comprised £190 payable nnder an insnrance policy and £100 in the Post Office Savings Bank. Tho Magistrate took the view that he need consider no defenee further than that above. He mentioned that some of the gifts made in contemplation of marriage were per se conditionai gifts— for instance, tho engagemeiit ring — but the gifts, made by plaintiff did not come within the class.