GIFTS TO FIANCEE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 223, 20 August 1937, Page 2

GIFTS TO FIANCEE.

UNUSUAL CASE HEARD. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 19. Holding that a suitor is not entitled to maintain an action to recover moneys or other gifts given to his fiancee unless he proves that they were given conditionally on the marriage taking place, Mr J. H. Luxford, to-day gave judgment in an action by a man against the father of lus fiancee. The circumstances were unusual in that the girl became afflicted with a serious complaint from which eventually she died. Plaintiff had paid various sums to her while they were engaged to enable her to buy comforts while she was undergoing treatment at a sanatorium and to take a trip to Samoa after she had left the sanatorium She died intestate, but the estate comprised £IOO payable under an insurance policy and £IOO ill the Post Office Savings Bank. . The Magistrate took the view that he need consider no defence, further than that above. He mentioned that some gifts made in contemplation of marriage were per se conditional gifts; for instance, an engagement ring; but the gifts made by plaintiff did not come within the class.