BREACH OF PROMISE
♦ WOMAN AWARDED DAMAGES. , AUCKLAND, May 14. ' In the Supreme Court, lima Eileen Pegler claimed £501 from George Thomas Coxhead, farmer, for breach of promise to marry. The case for .plaintiff was that about a month before the date fixed for the marriage defendant broke off the engagement, offering no excuse. Defendant's counsel denied an allegation by plaintiff's counsel that Cox-, head's family had been agreeable to the engagement only so long as it proved a bar to his being compelled to go to the war, and that their attitude changed on he introduction of the Military Service Act. , Counsel stated that the def endarit, finding his affection waning, ha dtaken he course of breaking off the relationship rather ithan risk marriage in the circumstances. This, counel.. suggested, was •honourable. / The jury awarded plaintiff £200 damages. ■. ■ ■
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Grey River Argus, 17 May 1917, Page 3
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138BREACH OF PROMISE Grey River Argus, 17 May 1917, Page 3
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