BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3845, 15 September 1928, Page 3

BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

' PLAINTIFF AWARDED £SO. • Auckland, Yesterday, A breach of promise case heard by Mi’. Justice Reed in the Sdpreme Court resulted in a woman being awarded £SO damages with costs. His Honour held that both a contract and a breach of it had been proved. Plaintiff was Mrs. Sarah Ellen Arnold and defendant William Frederick Morris, w’ho did not appear. Plaintiff said in January, 1926, Morris went to lodge with her and when he asked her to marry him she agreed. On Christmas Eve 1926, he measured her finger for an engagement ring and in January she purchased a section at Blockhouse Bay for a house for them to live in. She purchased clothes for the wedding but he postponed the marriage from time to time. At Easter 1927, plaintiff gave up the money she wms receiving from her former husband at Morris’s request. In October last she found, he was .going with another woman. They made it up again and lie promised to marry her the following week. Some months later when she went to see him he thumped her and gave her black eyes and said he would “do two years” for her. He w r as still friendly with the other woman. The essential parts of the evidence were corroborated by a young woman who had lived with plaintiff and by her daughter.