COSTLY BROKEN PROMISE
JUDGEMENT FOR £90,000 AGAINST AMERICAN FORGOTTEN ROMANCE DETROIT, Friday. Miss Bertha Cleavenger, aged 43, obtained judgment for £90,000 in a breach of promise suit, which is the largest sum ever awarded in the United States in a breach of promise action. In 1917 she arrived from the country,, and started letting rooms. John Henry Castle, one of her boarders, worked in the Ford factory at £1 a day. Then they became engaged The girl lent Castle £2OO to start him in the real estate business. His partner was Mi-. Henry Ford’s brother, and he made a fortune of £1,000,000. Two years ago Castle notified Miss Cleavenger tha,t he had married someone else.. The trial lasted six weeks.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 13
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