MAN SUES WOMAN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21972, 1 December 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)

MAN SUES WOMAN

BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT QUARREL AND A RING CASE DISMISSED BY CONSENT A Scottish radio artist, Miss Jean Day, was lately sued at I'alkirk for alleged breach of promise of marriage. She recently married Mr. John Brown, a cinema director.

Mr. David Love, an electrician, claimed £SOO damages from Mrs. Brown. Ho alleged that, having met Miss Day. as sho then was, in 1923, they became engaged, but after he had gone to considerable ex pen so in buying furniture for the homo she broke ofl the engagemen I. Mrs. Brown, in giving evidence, admitted accepting a ring from Love, but said she did not consider it an engagement ring, and she wore it on tho fourth finger of her right hand. ho ring had three sapphires and two diamonds. She admitted that Love used to visit at her house, and said he might have kissed me." There was a quarrel in March, 19rf0. witness said, and after that sho did not wear the ring except on a few occasions She told Love that things could never bo the same after he had insulted lier in a public room before a great many people. Only once or" twice in the ten years sho knew him had they walked out, and sho very seldom went with him to the cinema

Gilt ol a Ring

Mrs. Brown denied that arrangements wore made last year that she and Lo\e should he married this year, or that she spoke to a woman friend about being a bridesmaid. , , , . Witness said she met her husband in October last year. Love had told her that lie was finished with her. Ho said ho would send his brother s lorry for anything he had given me, and I said a wheelbarrow would do," witness Love, in the witness box, said ho first met Miss Day in 1923 at a concert, and in August, 1928, he gave her a ring. Between those diites they wero courting." They then decided to become engaged to be married, but no definite date was fixed as Miss Hay had her career as a professional singer. Referring to the ring, Love said Miss Day wore it on the fourth finger of her left hand, and after they had a quarrel in 1930, and she took the ring back a "-am, it was accepted as an engagement ring. His happiness, witness declared, was uninterrupted until October of last year, when Mr. Brown came on the scene. Up to that time they were on affectionate terms and embraced and kissed each other. ■ Action Discontinued

Witness said he bought a motor-car about four or five years ago and took Miss Day to and from concerts in it. At that time she was not making much money, and he gave her money from time to time. Last year he gave her £1 during a broadcast and paid her fares to Edinburgh. He also made payments to a Mr. Burnett, who was giving: her singing lessons. Counsel: I won't ask if you are heartbroken, but you feel your position keofilv, don't you—i'es. Sheriff Kobertson: He liasn t lost his market. That is the usual expression in connection with a lady. The hearing was adjourned until tho following day. It was then announced that, by agreement between the parties, the action had been discontinued. After the adjournment, counsel held a consultation, and later were given the sanction of Sheriff Robertson to have the case dismissed. There was no award or costs to either party.