Breach of Promise Case.
. (PBR aNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. • • r iNVBBCABQiLL, Thursday. ; ti In ,a base Jolly y. Officer), a claim of iEIOOO damages fox- breach of promise, the jury returned a verdict for the plain-. ti# for £75. Ike plaintiff- is a dressmaker m Dunedin, and defendant a schoolmaster m this district;' Having lost a legj he went to ; 'Dune'ciiri. to. study for a teacher/ and made the acquaintance of plaintiff, 'With' whose mother he boarded. 'An engagement resulted, but def enllah't " ' afterwards fell into bad health, and could .not. get a school. Ho Wrote m 1883 to fclie plaintiff suggesting that for. her sake it might bo as well to abandon the engagement. However, if she did not desire it, he had no obfoc^ .tion.to the engagement continuing. A WVty.. came: .fi-om plaintiff's 'mother asking a full explanation. In December, ,18^5, defendant wrote asking if plaintiff 'Ayished the. engagement continued,' but "received no reply till February last, ,wiion she wrote that she could not give Jn'm- up... ppofeud;ant:tljati by this time become engaged to another lady, whom Jie^had-sinro-Tnan-fed'. " '"' '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 77, 29 August 1885, Page 3
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179Breach of Promise Case. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 77, 29 August 1885, Page 3
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