BREACH OF PROMISE TO MARRY ALLEGED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18013, 25 November 1926, Page 9

BREACH OF PROMISE TO MARRY ALLEGED.

RELIGIOUS GROUNDS SAID TO HAVE CAUSED BREAK-OFF OF PLANS. Per Press Association. PALMERSTON NORTH, Nov. 25. The hearing . commenced in the Supreme Court this morning of an action in which Alice Josephine Greagan, supervisor of the Telephone Exchange at Palmerston North, is claiming from Hugh Parker, commercial traveller, of Whangarei, the sum cf £795 damages for alleged breach of promise to marry. The statement of claim sets out that plaintiff and defendant agreed to marry at Easter. 1925, but defendant in November, 1924, refused to do so. Plaintiff, in consequence of this refusal, suffered nervous shock and for a considerable time had been rendered unfit to carry out her duties. The statement for the defence admitted an agreement to marry, but denied that any date was fixed, or that defendant had refused to marry plaintiff, defendant stating that after the contract to marry was entered into, which contract was still subsisting, plaintiff imported into it a condition that all issue of the marriage be brought up in the religion of the Roman Catholic Church. L>efendant refused to be bound by such a con dition and was wholly exoneiated and discharged by plaintiff from the performance cf the promise, ; or, alternatively, the contract was rescinded, or lapsed, by mutual consent. The case is proceeding.