The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-08-02 00:00:00

BREACH OF PRoMIsE CASE.
ADVZOLTII3I:IO FOR • ROUSER.REPRi.

At the Croydon Anises, on Thursday, the taus al
Mader v. Sheller, which was en action to recrver damages
'rota the defendant fur the breach of hie prong...site merry
toe pluinttff. came on for trial before Mr. Justice Vivid
end e special jory.—The plaintiff is a lady named Mary
Emma Maio, about 35 years of age, sod tue defend eat had
formerly carried on the business of a brewer, end be W
•AOUt five years older than the plaintiff. In the month of
March, IRV, the delandant advertised for • housekeeper,
and the pimnied anewered that advertisement, and toms
1 cominutucadone took place between them, but nothing
I came of them at this time. In the full iwing yew toe
defendant again airertteed for a housekeeper, sad the
1 plaintiff again came into communication with him, and
in the result the deleadaot eogageo the plaintiff at • very
AndSOMe Suer, to Setae his housekesitar. Very NM &ILK
this the defendant sue morning went into the plaintiff's
bedroom. The plaintiff only then gave her consent to west
happened upon the *Mena &Pointed of the deleadeet
that he wou:d make her his wile, mad it was ler tweet.
ing this pro:else that the p sintid had been ccespellsd
to bring the present actiou. From the time thus bah
place, the plaintiff and defendant lived as maw sod wife,
and • few months afterwards the plaintiff cduitounicated
to the defendant that she was pregame', and she pressed
the defendant to carry out his promise to marry her.
This led to some disagreement between tame, and the
defendant was no doubt under the impression that he
could not be the father of the child. considering the pined
during which they had been on intimate terms. The
plaintiff indignantly repelled the insinuation that wee
made against her, but the defendent insisted that teey
should separate be a tame, and this esperauon sowed.
ingly tool place, the defendant stating that if he should
be satisfied that ne really was the Littler of tile child he
should feel himsed bound to fulfil toe promise he had
formerly made. A constant correspondence was carried
on between them, end several letters were written try the
defendant to the plaintiff, in which he addressed ler ib•
" my owe dear wife,- end which were couched in the most
affectionate terms, assuring her of his fidelity eel love.
and expressing his intention to marry her When
he wag fully satisfied upon the point mentioned. The
plaintiff, in her letters to the defeurlant, always addressed
him as "my dear George" or" my deer husband,-sod in
one of them she begged him no, to pay any attention to
anonrmous letters that might be shown to kiln by •
certain person, as "she" would no doubt do Mt
In her power to make mischief between teen.
The defendant made an erraosisment that if the child
should nut he born until af ier the Elrd of December ha
should consider that be was the fattier, and he piedged
himself in toat OM at once to marry the plaintiff, le
pursuance of this arrangement, and the partief bang still
no the moat frtendiy terms, the plaintiff went to Ble,ne.
Bay, where she resided in the house of the medical etas
until the birth of tills child, which did not take OWN used
the iffth December. Immediately after the birth • tele-
gram was mat to the defendant, to Inform him of the tea,
and he In r,ply wrote to the plaintiff, add.reamag her seMy own deer wife," and statina that on the receipt of
the telegram he thought his heart would have stopped
beating, but when his opened It and found what the Cot'
tents were kit felt the greatest hsppinese in finding that
she was out of her trouble.—. Justice Field, at thecae
of the speech of the learned counsel, said it appeared 15 him impossible to doubt that there had been • promise it
marriage, and that defendant had certainly remind to ful-
fil that promise. He suggested, therefore, that it was •
case in which the parties might come to eel= a iningameni.
—The learned counsel on both sides accordingly roe ter red
together for • short time, when it was itnaousced that tee
defendant emanated to • verdict for the P151511L 'ilk
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