BREACH OF PROMISE.

Shannon News, 20 October 1925, Page 4

BREACH OF PROMISE.

BARMAID GETS £1250. For having failed to fulfil his prom_ ise of marriage to Jennie Orchard, of . Mascot Flats, Belmore Road, Rand-' wick, Cuthbert Ive, a marine engineer, ha<2 a verdict of £1250 given against him in Sydney in an action brought by her to recover £2OOO com. pensation. The case, which was heard/before Mr. Acting. Justice Ralston and a jury, was before the Court merely for assessment of dam- > ages, the defendant having failed to , appear. Plaintiff’s story, as TClated by her counsel, was that she had been previously married,, and in 1913 dlvorc. ed her husband. Refusing to take anything from him, she earned her living, as a barmaid, and when the defendant met with an accident which incapacitated him for sir months, she nursed him. They after, wards became engaged .and he gave her a ring. It wasf agreed between, then in 1922 that they should marry in the near future, and the defendant; who did not desire that the woman he -was going to make his wife should be working as a barmaid, prevailed upon her to leave her position. For 18 months the plaintiff then 1 lived on her savings, and made preparation# for the approaching wed. ding. In September, 1924. he told her he wanted to go to Adelaide to- : have his nose operated on, and after he left she did not receive a letter from him nutil November, 1924, when, he wrote intimating that he was sorry to have to disappoint her, and. ' that he was not returning. He concluded with the words: “Well, to cut a long story short, I am married.” , The plaintiff, however, discovered', that he was not then married, but that he married later.