BREACH OF PROMISE ACTION AGAINST A MAN 76 YEARS OLD.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 457, 28 June 1871, Page 2

BREACH OF PROMISE ACTION AGAINST A MAN 76 YEARS OLD.

b^ach of promise of marriae* wa#-ied a^he ."Northern Circuit, LivS whieh.wasnbt.'put forward as a veryromE one^iis tMefendant was seventy-six y£ old, whale Jhe plaintiff was under thirty Tf the plaintiff was schSLttret at the schools of a Scotch Presbyterian church in Manchester, of which_the defendant, who 'wara-pa^brokerr-was He wrot« irupecember to asJk.Jthe consent of the pS parents |toZ his.outage Kwfcl/their daughter, an& snbequenfly /orw^rle'd "to the "ptamtittv^^^^^ inenfc to ma eh was already si&aedbv himself. AB^^er-the., plaintiff nor aS witnesses on her behalf were present on the opening of the case,; her. learned counsel wZ driven |o call the defendant bjniself to prove the letter^ and'muonamhsementWas^used by hwjbeingled, .into-court supported by a policeman,'6n 'either iidkAS&afgg t_m ceeded to * give -liis i evidence* 'However fie hardly preserved the a F . e <r. ~* of exteeme feebleness which he at 15 st a umed:. H e ad mitted the from which: if appeared time after the promise wis given, the defendant wrote'to" say thatlie wasloo bid and feeble to mav.^and the engagement had bet er be broken off.: It serf,* also, from that, there had, been a considerable outer v among the members of the Church ai; the notion of the marriage, and the • clergynian had , used bis influence to prevent >it.' The plaintiff, however, had given upher situation as schQol-mistresSj and so lost her. saliry of £1 a week, and refused to give upthe'.mfttoh, and this action.was brought.' The'lea-ned consel for the defend&nt made an amus^if speech to the juvy, in wh;eh he se'dit was a pity the defendant could not plead infancy, and that the only injury, whioh the plaintiff,, had .suffered was its being: made, known that 'her .'taste was jn,.favour ofrßuch extraordinary old men; that none ot ordinary age would be .tempted V to propose to her. The jury awarded ker £20 damages. m ' """""— *