BREACH OF PROMISE
A CASE IN DETROIT.'.
JUDGMENT FOR HUGE AMOUNT.
(United Press Association.)
(By Blectrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) ' DETROIT, December 20. (Received Dec. 21, at I a.m.)
Bertha Cleavenger (43) won a judgment of £90,000, which is the largest ■ ever awarded in an American breach of promise action. In 1917 she arrived from the country and started a rooming house business. John Henry Castle, one of her boarders, worked in the Ford factory for £1 a day. When they became engaged, the girl loaned Castle £2OO to start him in a real estate business, his partner being Mr Henry Ford’s brother. They made a fortune of £1,000,000, and two years ago. Castle. notified her that he had married someone else. . The trial lasted six weeks.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20906, 21 December 1929, Page 13
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