NUMEROUS LOVE LETTERS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 29, 10 June 1927, Page 3

NUMEROUS LOVE LETTERS

TYPIST'S BREACH OF PROMISE CLAIM. i : , JUDGE AND TROUSSEAU. \

LONDON, June 2Mr Justice Swift and- counsel discussed a trousseau when Agues Graham, aged 30. a typist, sued James Mackechnie, formerly of Singapore, for'breach of promise of marriage. / The couple had been engaged for 'six years, during which period 4000 letters passed between them. Maelveehnie,' who had been greatly interested in the trousseau, pointed out, that two changes daily would be necessary in the tropics, and at least fourteen afternoon frocks would be requiredLater he married a woman with whom ,he had made the voyage Rome. Miss Graham gave evidence that her trousseau now was hopelessly old-fashioned, especially the dresses, on whirl) she had spent £llß. Mr Justice Swift- You could cut a, bit off. Miss Graham, replying to coinsel's suggestion that she bad lost only the .-£2BO spent, on. the trousseau, asked : "Are niv feeliiurs nothing." Mr Justice Swift, summing up, said that, even to-day marriage was an honourable profession, and most women pjref erred looking after a husband and children. The jury awarded plaintiff £I2OO.