BREACH OF PROMISE.
JILTED GIRL RECEIVES DAMAGES. Dunedin, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr Justice Sim and a jury of 12, Ivy Elizabeth Sims sued Alan Henderson McCallum for £5Ol as damages for an alleged breach of promise to marry. The plaintiff stated that she had at Christmas. .1922, agreed to marry defendant, at his request. Later, however, lie broke off the engagement, and through worry and loss of sleep, she became ill, and attempted to commit suicide.
The defendant claimed that lie had never agreed to marry the plaintiff, though she had persistently asked him to do so on several occasions. He had asked her to put the matter off because she threatened to commit suicide. The jury, after forty minutes’ retirement, found in favour of the plaintiff, and £250 damages wero n warded.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2696, 16 February 1924, Page 3
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138BREACH OF PROMISE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2696, 16 February 1924, Page 3
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