BREACH OF PROMISE.
£2OO DAMAGES. By Tel«sgrapl]--Fress Association. TIMARC, March 10. In the District Court to-day, an action was heard before District Judge Haselden and a special jury, in which Ruth Benbow, daughter of a small farmer at Temuka, claimed from Robert John Edgar, a young farmer, £SOO damages for breach of promise of marriage. The couple became engaged in 1904, but the defendant broke off the engagement in October last, only to renew it a fortnight later. Finally he refused to marry the plaintiff. The principal reason given for the breach was that the girl was "too quiet." The jury awarded £2OO damages.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3135, 11 March 1909, Page 5
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111BREACH OF PROMISE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3135, 11 March 1909, Page 5
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