BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.
London, October 15. Mrs. Catherine Brodie, an artist, formerly of New Zealand, who sued Mr. David Macgregor, a contractor, of Glasgow, for £30,000 for breach of promise, has, on the re-hearing of the case, been awarded £500. Previously she had declined an offer of £1500 and her expenses.
The plaintiff in this action was married in 1379 to Mr. O. S. Brodie, a son of a late chief justice of Ceylon, and lived with him in New Zealand, but eventually got a divorce in Wellington and returned to live with tier mother in Edinburgh. She made a living as an artist, and when she removed to Glasgow Macgregor, whom she had known when a child, promised to do what he could to help her in her profession. She subsequently announced to him that she had become engaged to a gentleman named Nelson, and in her evidence stated that Macgregor in reply > said " I hoped to have married you myself, ana that he afterwards repeated his offer, and that she accepted him. The case was heard early in this year, and Mrs. Brodio was awarded £5000 damages. The cable message intimates the result of the appeal made by the defendant.
BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11787, 17 October 1901, Page 5
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