DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF PROMISE.
Auckland, May 1-1. In the .Supreme Court, lima Eileen Pegler claimed .1501 Hum Course Thomas Coxhead, farmer, J'or hreaeh ul promise to mtirry. Tlio case lor the plaintiff was tiiut about a month hei'ore the dale of the marriage defendant broke oil the engagement, offering' no excuse. I)e----femiaul’s counsel denied an allegation by the opposing counsel that Coxhead's family had been agreeable to the engagement only so long as it proved a bar to his being compelled to go to the war, and that their altitude changed on the introduction of the Military Service Act. Counsel stated that defendant, finding his affection waning, had taken the course of breaking off the relationship rather than risk marriage in the circumstances. This, counsel suggested, was honourable. The jury awarded £2OO.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1713, 17 May 1917, Page 3
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133DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF PROMISE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1713, 17 May 1917, Page 3
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