JILTED FOR ANOTHER

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1931, Page 9

JILTED FOR ANOTHER

SYDNEY GIRL AWARDED £2OO.

Although her former lover jilted her for another girl, and on that account she sued him for- £4OO lor breach of promise, Miss lima May Viney, aged 25, stated at the District Court at Parramatta, Sydney, last week, that she was still prepared to marry him. Plaintiff said that she and Robert Victor Branz, a bricklayer, had grown up together from childhood at Dural, where her father is an orchardist. They went to the same Sunday School and began a friendship that by August, 1928, had ripened into something more. That year he gave her valuable presents, and from then on they “kept company.” “He took me everywhere on his motor-bicycle,” she said. “We went to picnics and picture shows together, and he was continually at my house.” In March last, said plaintiff, defendant gave her an engagement ring, and when he went to Ballina in August he wrote three times a week to her, calling her his “darling future wife,” and signing himself, “Your ever loving future husband.” Asked by her solicitor, Mr Murray, what she had done with the letters Miss Viney said that she had burnt them because she was so worried. In March defendant wrote and told her that he had another girl, whom he loved better. Miss Viney went to Ballina by that night’s train and tried to effect a reconciliation, but in vain. On the question of damages, Miss Viney said that Branz had made her a glory box, and she had spent £4O filling it with “treasures” for her future home. Branz did not defend the suit and Miss Viney w-as given a verdict for £2OO.