WOMEN DEGRADED.
BREACHES OF PROMISE.
LONG ENGAGEMENT DANGER,
(United Press Association—Copyright)
LONDON, March 14. The bachelor Judge, Sir Henry McCardie, has been trying, a breach of promise case in which a woman aged thirty-three was awarded £ls damages against a man aged thirty-three who broke an engagement of eight years' standing because he met a wealthy Park Lane widow.
Giving judgment, his Honor said: "Instead of assisting womanhood these actions greatly lowered her dignity. There is' no more degrading occupation for a. Judge and a jury." They! die), however, raise the point whether it was desirable for a girl to accept a man without setting some time limitation to the engagement. .
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 131, 16 March 1931, Page 5
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