BREACH OF PROMISE
WOMAN AWARDED DAMAGES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. August 9. A claim for damages for alleged breach of promise of marriage came before Mr. Justice Fair and a jury of four in the Supreme Court. The action was brough by Joyce Mary Simmons, spinster, aged 22, against Andrew Keith Donald, milkman, aged 25. Plaintiff alleged that defendant and she agreed on July 4, 1937, to marry. In anticipation of this, she accumulated a trousseau and household goods to the value of £2OO. It was alleged that from the time of their engagement to the present, defendant, unknown to plaintiff, had been associated with another girl, and had made arrangements to marry her. On March 15 last defendant rescinded the agreement to marry and refused to be bound by it. Plaintiff, therefore, asked for £250 general damages and £75 special damages for depreciation of'trousseau.
Defendant denied that there had been a promise of marriage, and said, if there was, they had mutually agreed to cancel the agreement. The jury found for plaintiff and awarded her £BO general damages.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1939, Page 10
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