BREACH OF PROMISE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23606, 15 March 1940, Page 6

BREACH OF PROMISE

WOMAN AWARDED £IOO [bt telegraph—own correspondent] WELLINGTON, Thursday The full amount of damages claimed, £IOO. was awarded Edna Eileen Payne, plaintiff in a breach of promise action taken against Henry Keith Lower, tramway conductor, and heard in the Supreme Court, Wellington, by Mr. Justice Johnston. In his judgment, His Honor remarked that defendant could have ended the matter had he paid £1 lis 6d legal expenses as originally suggested by plaintiff, but in conformity with the way he regarded his promise to marry, he had neglected to do that. One could find no reason at all on the part of plaintiff to break off the engagement. Her whole "conduct had been quite exemplary, and it was clear that defendant had been starting a friendship with another young woman to whom he had now become engaged. It appeared that a previous engagement had been broken off also, and while His Honor did not mean to say that because that had happened defendant must necessarily have broken off his engagement to Miss Payne, nevertheless it assisted one in determining his state of mind and the attitude hj? adopted to those matters.