DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF PROMISE
tmt , —. riT«iT*D Pttbbw ASHOCIA/lOW ) AUCKLAND. May 14. In the Supreme Court lima Eileen Pegler claimed £ZCI from George Thos. Coxhead, farmer, for breach of promise fto marry. The case for the plaintiff was that about a month before the date of the marriage defendant broke off the engagement, offering no excuse. Defendant's counsel denied an allegation by the opposing counsel that Coxhead's family had foeer* agreeable to the en'=ragement only so long as it proved a bar to his being compelled to go to the war, and that their attitude changed on the introduction of the Military Service Act. Counsel stated that the defendant, finding his affection waning, had taken the course of breaking off the relationship rather than risk marriage in the circumstances. This, counsel suggested, was honourable. <a The jury awarded £2CO.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 16 May 1917, Page 8
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