The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-07 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
(Ilitiap at Nisi Prins at GaildhalL—Batch Mr. Baron
Snowsll and a Special Jury.)

HAGGIS V. 16011H.-311.1ACH OF FROMM OF NARRIAGT.

The was an satire for breach of promise of marriage.
The defendant pleads& that he dittststapreedes.stkott he wig
ready and willing to perform the* glegebei, ball motioned/
time had not elapsed, and that whew he mods the prozold
heswea Saone._ _ _

--Mr.RdwinJames and Mr. Morgan Lloyd were conned
for the plaintiff; Mr. Slade and Mr. H. Bunn represented
the dadendant.
Mr. Janne, in mad. ag the ems, said that the plaintiff wee
• young girl, 24 years of age, of attractive persona/ apt=
sine, and of humble parentage, her father, who bad
in the army, enjoying • small pension, and carrying on •
pablic house at Mark,. in Baez. The defendant was •
young pntleman, the son of • medical man at Proms. Both
his parents were dead, end the defendant himself wag
destined for the medical probation. With the view of cola-
*deg hie Audio the defendant bad been pied
with • Dr. Dobson it Harlow in Rees; in whose
establishment the paladin was in the humble capacity of •
domestic 'anent. While there the defendant became vio-
lently attached to her. He paid her every attention, lad
ultimately, by the sonsent of his aunt, from wham
he had some expeattimes, he owed her to bs
placed in the holm el • clergyman named Oilade, with Sap
view of bellttiog her be the station in life which she wool§
have to occupy as the thdentlant's wife. Accordingly, frail
the 9th of Amnia, 1866, to August, 1867, the plaintiff em
maned at Kr. Ode's, where she conducted herself with
remarkable decorum end propriety. The month of
August, in 1867, was fixed foe the marriage;
and this young girl made the necessary venera-
tione, ca the solemn probations of this man that he would
make her his wily but he went into Somerset.
and then suddenly, but
without the slightest reason
or mimeo for the change, he wrote to her
abandoning her, and despite her most earnest and torn=
appeals imploring him to grant her as interview,
ever to me her again. She was quite at • loam to know
under what pretence he had east her off after having taken
her out of her sphere in life, which, if humble, was at lea%
• happy and • reepectable one. The only thing they knee
was that the detendant had placed on the record this
most extzeordlsary plea that he was and when he
made the promise and had continued mad throughout the
whole engagement. It was true that he was addicted to
drinking, sad that the plaihtiff had earnestly implored him
to give rap the habit. There war not • shadow of fonadatica
for the 111104ftiOl that he wee of unsoned mind, sad
hie loners, all of which should be produced, dbproved it.
The Maned counsel then read the letters written by the
dollosdant, breaking off the match, in which he stated that k
would be Weer for both of them that they should be ono-
Mad, and that his brew was not sunniest for their met
tammin, together with the replies of the plaintiff, whisk
were morel,, creditably written, and in which eke hr.
Whim to her, if only for once again.
hetted counsel pr me
oceeded to say that after these lettem
from the defiariaat the girl had been sent home from the
clergymen's where she had been placed, and front that mo-
ment to this the defendant had refuted either apology or re.
potation for his most heartless conduct, for which the jury
were now celled upon to give ample damages.
Mrs. Anne Bagger, mother of the plaintiff, was then ex-
emitted. She deposed to witnessing the attentions paid to her
daughter by the defendant, and to the fixing of the day for
the marriage. In cases-examination she was asked it Mr.
Debson's house at which the couple met was net
• private madhouse, and if Mr. Binh was not there
se an Insane patient. She said abe could not tell, and that
she did not know that Mr. Bush was now in a =dhows.
On being further pressed, she buret out crying, and said, . I
comae beer it any longer, sir." Mr. Slade did not there-
fore ask her any further questions.
Mrs. Oils* wife of the Rev. R. Oiled., of Kensington,
deposed that the plaintiff had been placed at her home by
Mrs. Bush, for the per of educating ber. The defendant
slated bar and much attached to her.
The plaintiffsl brother having been examined, the late*
written by the defendant were then put in ; they were very
marlbly writes, and principally referred to the armee•
mats entered into by his aunt and himself, with the view of
educating the plaintiff for • higher sphere in life. In cam
latter he stated ha was living as economically as possible,
with the view of saving money, and in another that "he
now confined himself to two puns of bitter ale a day."
This closed the plaintiff's case.
Mr. Slade addressed the jury for the defame. He said
that it was not hie intention to deny the prondoe or the
breach, but he would show them that the plain•
tiff had a moat fortunate maps frem an Ills
assorted union, for the defendant was at this me.
matt, by the visitation of God, oonflood in a madhouse.
The Were which had been relied on stowed that they UM
written by • man in his sine moments but under the ch-
comsences fn which he was placed the fulfilment of the dr
fendent'm promise would have entailed the greatest misery on
her, mat she might thank Providence that :she had escaped
from what she doubtless considered • most advan-
tageous match. The ddendant had been at one time
so outrageously imam that he had been placed
under the charge of Dr. Forbes Winslow, and subsequently
under the are of Dr. Dobson, ostensibly for the purpose of
competing his studies, but virtually that a watchful eye
should be kept over him as one who was ant door to h-
ome. This young woman was perfectly aware of the
eiromostances under which he had been placed there, and
it would be fur the jury to say whether she bed
sot takes advantage of his weak intellect. They next bead
him having Dr. Dobson's without notice, and taking ate Ids
resithaes,:st Horton, neer the brother of his immeseade,
the housemaid to whom be was so ;saicila
attaeleL There he was under the
eye of the old lady, the mother, who took good
oars to ask what his intentions wan It was • mouth bakes
Mrs. Bush found out where her nephew lass, and then she
found him In lodgings at Roams, entangled fa is
engagement with • housemaid at a madhouse. Ham
them circumstances Mrs. Bush gave • Mooned
°cement to the match, and seated in placing the plaialiff
at Mrs. Oilades, in the hope that under Providence
the marriage, if It should take pima, would be more
when the young woman had become better fitted for
better station In which she would have entered e • beet
nephew's wife. He thought that regard being had to an
the circumstances the most moderate compensation would
meet the justice of the case.
Mr. W. A. Guy, physician, of King's College, Mee. De-
cree Bush, the ddmdimit's aunt, Dr. Bochazzirair:
Bartlett, the manager of Dr. Forbes Winslow'.
meat, and other wimames were thee examined on behalf tithe
dehmea.. . . • ..

This cloud the daludsat's eue.
The leaned wawa ea both aides haying addressed the

jurii. Baron Bramwell rammed up.
The jury returned a verdict tor the *eland, damages
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