•A BREACH OF PROMISE CASK.

Manawatu Herald, 19 August 1881, Page 4

•A BREACH OF PROMISE CASK.

A case of some interest has just boon tiled in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. Miss Emma Eva Partridge, daughter of a substantial Devonshire farmer, sued Mv Richard Woonsnam, a commercial traveller, for violating his plighted troth. There was no doubt whatever about the original promise, but. apparently Mr Woonsnam saw somebody he liked better, and hasted to he on with the new love with 0 celerity and, we may add, a faithlessness which deserved all the punishment it has received. It was in the course of a happy day in Epping Forest the engaged couple managed to fall out. Mr Woonsuam's ungallant account pf the affair was that Miss Partridge evinced a liking for the "flowing bowl," which jarred upon his pre-matrimonial notions of Avhat was fitting aud proper. Three glasses of beer, a glass of port, one of gin and cold water; two more glasses of beer, two glasses of sherry, and a bottle of stout were all laid to the charge of the young lady in question by her former lover. Down to the second glass of sherry lie had treated her, ho avowed, as " one whom he loved," but that second glass proved too much for his feelings. It is comforting to find that tho jury did not believe much of this story, or, at all events, saw in it no sufficient reason <vhy a mau should break his plighted troth ; on the contraiy, they ga-Ve five hundred pounds by way of compensation for a broken heart, and added a rider to the effect that the rustic damsel left the court " without a stain on her character." Miss Partridge may therefore console 'herself for the loss of her suitqiv by rthe- verdict of tho j™7-