BREACH OF PROMISE ACTION.
WOMAN SECURES £90,000. CASE dTTmeRICA. V DETROIT, Dec. 19. -Miss Bertha Cleaveritter, aged 43, has secured judgment tor £90,000, which is the largest turf ever awarded in the United States on a breach of promise action. ’ ' In 1917 Miss Cleaveriger arrived from the country and started a rooming house for business men. John Henry Castle, one of her boarders, worked in the Ford factory for £1 a dav. Then they became engaged. Mfss Cleaveriger loaned Castle £2OO to start him in the real estate business, his partner being Henrv Fords brother and he madei a fortune of £1.000,000. _ ' i ... * . Two years ago, Castle notinea ner that he had married someone else. Tho trial lasted six weeks.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 22, 21 December 1929, Page 7
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120BREACH OF PROMISE ACTION. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 22, 21 December 1929, Page 7
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