SREACH OF PROMISE.
£2s Worth of law,
IsvEßOAßqai,, Feljiqary A special viury'' awajcjed May Aubrey Valentine; £25 damage? in the breach of promise action against Alex MoKillop,. The evidence of one y wimess, vVnght, caused a sepsatidn, - r The'defence was that M\jKllop refused to marry the girl because he had discovered she was immoral, and' fright, lover, sas rojied ■ <jii to prove it. He, however, refuse; to commit bimselrYreferring' qoun|q ':. to the girl's alleged letters to him as' 1 nn answer to the question,--* At tho ; close ot tho case Mr Justice 'Williams. made plaintiff gotbrough all the letters said by the defence to;be written by her, and she selected all' those in whioh remarks damaging,: to .'.her - morality" occurred' as forgeries/; Some;, sbesaid/contained statements'Blje "hidi'l made, ; -interpolated.with others, of ;_ which '! W kne'iv letters hatet eXoitedj' U'gooil °3eal of - icuriosity, as did the aetion,the Court .
being croivded, The plaintiff oreated a favourable impression by her straightforward way of giving lier ovidenoo under cross-examination. Her connsol, Mr Fraser, of Dimedin, fairly roasted Wright in his oxatniuatiou and address to the jury,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4038, 15 February 1892, Page 2
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180SREACH OF PROMISE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4038, 15 February 1892, Page 2
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