BREACH OF PROMISE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 14 September 1928, Page 17

BREACH OF PROMISE

FIFTY POUNDS AWARDED (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, 13th Soptembcr. A breach of promise cuso heard by Mr. Justice Beed in the Supreme Court to-day rosultcd in a woman being awarded £50 damages with costs. His Honour held that both contract and broach of it had beon provod. Tho plaintiff was Mrs. Sarah lOllen Arnold, and the defendant William Frederick Morris, who did not appear. Tho plaintiff said that in January, 1920", Morris went to lodge with her, and when he asked her to marry him sho agreed. On Christmas JSve, 1926, ho measured her finger for an engagement ring, and in January sho purchased a section at 1 Blockhouse Bay for a house for them to live in. She purchased clothes for the wedding, but he postponed the marriago from time to time. At Easter, 1927, tho plaintiff gave up tho money she was receiving from her former husband at Morris's request. In October last sho found he wa:s going with another woman. They made it up again, and he promised to marry her tho following week..-, Some months later, when she went to soe him, he thumped her and gave her black oyes, and said he would "do two years" for her. He was still friendly with the other wo- [ man. The essential parts of tho evidence wore corroborated by a young woman who had lived with plaintiff and by her daughter.