BROKEN ENGAGEMENTS.
BETTER THAN UNHAPPY LIFE. OPINION OF A JUDGE. (Per Association—Copyright.) LONDON, Feb. 13. ■ Mr Justice McCardie congratulated Miss Young (the lady barrister) on the masterly handling of a breach of promise case before the jury. The verdict awarded £7O damages to her client.
His Honor added that over and over again, he had observed that breach of promise cases were invariably brought with the object of punishing men, and also for the purpose of extracting money which could not otherwise be ex- ( tracted. " The most striking feature of the cases was that for one instituted by men, there were a hundred by women. It was infinitely better that engagements should be broken off rather than that there should be marriage from which bitterness and miseiy were inevitable. Divorce records revealed the result of this ill-assorted unions.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10670, 15 February 1926, Page 5
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