AMUSING BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

Evening Star, Issue 2943, 25 July 1872, Page 2

AMUSING BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

At the Manchester Assizes, lately, a breach of promise case was tried. The plaintiff was a domestic servant named M‘Leod, and the defendant a plumber named Horrocks. Both were about lifby years of age. The defendant had proposed to the plaintiff soon after the death of his second wife, and wanted to bo married in a hurry. After some three years’ courting, with sundry quarrellings, the plaintiff wrote, asking if it was true that he ivas keeping company with another woman. The defendant replied—- “ You said you Avoukl never mend my trousers, so I thought 1 had better look out for a wife somewhere else ’' The defendant gave evidence and said he told plaintiff that three months was long enough for a man at his time of life to court, and when the plaintiff demurred to this it “put a regub r damper on him.” “When I was wanting to be married, of course I told her that 1 had two or three pair of trousers that wanted mending—they were always out at the knees. She said she never could do noAvfc of the sort. I told her that all my t’other wives had done it.” (Great laughter.) The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, LSO.