BREACH OF PROMISE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3888, 18 September 1928, Page 11

BREACH OF PROMISE.

. £5O DAMAGES AWARDED. AUCKLAND, September 13. A breach of promise case heard by Mr Justice Reed in the Supreme Court resulted in the woman being awarded £5O damages with costs. His Honor held that both the contract and the breach of it had been proved. The plaintiff was Mrs Sarah Ellen Arnold, and the defendant was William Frederick Morris, who did not appear. Plaintiff said . that in January, 1926, Morris went to lodge with her,and when he asked her to marry him she agreed On Christmas Eve, 1926, he measured her finger for an engagement ring, and in January she purchased a section at Blockhouse Bay for a house for them to live in. She purchased clothes for the wedding, but he postponed the marriage from time to time. At Easter, 1927, plaintiff gave up money she was receiving from her former husband at Morris’s request. In October last she found he was going with another woman. They made it up again, and he promised to marry her the following week. Sdme months later when she went to see him he'thumped her and gave her black eyes, said he would “do two years ” far her. He was still friendly with the other woman. The essential parts of the evidence were corroborated by a young woman who lived with the plaintiff, and by her daughter.