The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-08-17 00:00:00

GORDON V. WOODRIDOIL

This was an itot- ion to reooser damages for a breach of
promise of marriage.
Mr. Serjeant Ballantine and Mr. Worsley were for the
plaintiff ; Mr. E. Junei gO,, and Mr. Hannan appear.
ad for the defendant. .

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defendant without, and she 11164111 that by ooneentlps
ohs should hare The " pull " on him. Shi then told
him that she intended to so to the house, knouk at the
door, and then bull Into the parlour and say to the is
fondent, " tier. are your twt —, turn out whielisver
you like." laugh.) He ogled on the plaintiff I
second thins at the came plea and she then tout him
that the defendant wee skill ;Wilting her, and that she
hod gut CO out uf him and she Mau odd that she Ided
been in the habit of borimwing a sovereign of him when.
ever ohs wanted one.
This pram the we for the
Mr. James oulimitted that there was not the lend evl.
dose to support the asouluption of any promise of mar.
Assn having been made.
Mr. Justin Willis was then about to sum up.
The Jury, however, intarpmwd, and said they were
unanimously of opinion that no promise of marrlap had
hien made out. They enoordingly returned a verdlot fur
the defendant,

TH. New DIVOICI COUBT.—The Law Times ear
The petitions for judicial "operation already entered in
the Divorce Court are very numerous—to be counted,
we believe, by hundred"—and our readers know how
many more are In preparation. We have looked at the
reported businem of the prepent using, expecting to
find that adventage had been taken of the very Bluish
lens expensive tribunal there pmvided ; but have found
none. On the Western Circuit one cue was entered,
but 10 was not tried. Nothing lies appeared In the
other", so far, at least, as we have been able to discover.
Why Is it! Hu this tribunal escaped the notice of the
country solicitor,! Or is there an aversion on the part
of suitors to have such delicate subjects discuseed in
their own neighbourhood" in the hearing of their neigh•
bourn? It is a remarkable fact that the much desired
opportunity being given for a tribunal that should bring
justice in this form "home to their doors," to nee
the popular phrase, nobody is found to avail himself
of it.

-.Mr. isill-e.a.rTit-all.s.atine, in opening the wee, said that
the plaintiff, Mrs. Annie Gordon, was a widow, and the
defendant, Mr, John Woodridp, was a chymist, and
carried on his business at two establishments, one in the
New-road and the other in Holborn. Tile intimacy be-
tween the parties oominenced in the year 1886, and at
this time the plaintiff had been a widow six or given
years, and shelled one child, a girl about seven years
old. He was not aware exactly of the nature of the
plaintiff.' means, but he did not believe that the slight-
est imputation would be out upon her character. She
was about 34 or 35 years old, and the defendant was
about AO, so that so far as ego went the jury would OIN
that the parties were quite suitable to each other, and
when the jury had heard the evidence he should lay be-
fore them he believed they would not entertain fey
doubt that the defendant had suedes promise of lille•
Hap to his client, and that he bad deliberately broken
that promise. He was not able to make out clearly how
the connection first took plasm between the plaintiff and
the defendant, but he believed that the plaintiff had
gone to the shop of the defendant to have some pre-
scription mede up, and the defendant was smitten with
her, and an intimacy at onto sprung up between them
which ripened into affection, and ended to the defendant
m desiring to ake the plaintiff his wife.
The learned imuneel then reed portions of some letters
written by the defendant to the plaintiff. They all
eounneneed "Dear Annie," but vele touched In very
general, ambiguous terms, referring to the eluitement
he bad sustained during wine of their interviews, mid
one of them referred toe repute he had Med* SO liar, *
which he said she had returned Ik
emonosyllable " No,"
and raked her whether she persevered in that answer,
It also appeared that upon one *MU* he plaintif
had gone down to Gosport, and the defendant meow
panied her to the railway station, and upon tiel Reel of.
cosion, when the defendant wrote to her, he reprieved
his regret that he was not with bey during the Journey,
particularly the latter part of it, when he said they
thank' probably have been gee@ le the parried., and
the "'hides of evening" approaching ' end this letter
'longitude,' by etating that the plaintiff had given hiry a
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lip." -The teemed eerteant prueeeded to elate that there
Ili" could be no doubt that for a very loneideroloy the
wiles wen on the mud intlinale and a e ate
term.' init, be said, toward. 111. latter end o the
delendent'a letters became shorter end 'color every has
he wrote, and at ipnith, on the Wfth of February hi the
'imam year, the defendant wrote a very setroorillnary
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