The National Register.
London, England, 1817-06-02 00:00:00

174

LAW ENTTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF KING'S BENCII, MAY 29.

BREACH OF I'i;OMISE OF NIARRIAGE.
ANNE EVANS, SPINsTLR, T. THOM 1S JOSEs, ESQ.

This was an action to II rover damages for the breach of a
promise of marriage.—The damages were laid at 50001.—The •
defendant pleaded, that he had made no sorb promise. It
appeared that the father of the plaintiff was Collector of the
Excise at Caernarvon, a 111111 1 t great respectability, with a
family of seven children, five of whom were daughters, and
the plaintiff the eldest. At the time the defendant first be-
am) to pay his addresses, she was shoot twenty-three or four
}ears old, and the defendant somewhat older: he had an •
l'lltitte of 10001. a year, and expectations to the moonlit of
10001. a year more. The argil:amulee commenced in Me :
in the beginning of the following sear the defendant pro-
-I:.ssed outsell a ,luitor. Towards the close of 181 t, rumours
were admit that the defemlaut was particularly attcotive to
another lady of the name tie Lythall. Olio resident at Caer-
hart en •
; and it was even stated that promises had been made
to her of a matrimonial union. These suggestions the de-
fendant repelled with indignation, and in 1111:), sonic
preparations were made by him for the celebration of his ap-
proaching marl iage with this Evans; it hieing agreed that
her father should give her 5091. money being esteemed by the
defendant a matter of no consequence. In Angust 1815,
. titer a trial ai shrew-slimy, the defendant took a most H&c-
tiotusteleave of the plaintiff and her family, professing that
he sherald return soon : he did return, and renewed his ad-
dresses wide increased ardour, declaring, that a speedy
union with•the plaintiff alone resold make hint happy. At this
very moment he was a married man. having been united in
London to illiss Lythall! The plaintiff and her relatives
were, however, ignorant of the fact until some time after-
wards, when the slefendant again took his leave, informing
the family tliat %he should return , but had never since
made his appearance.—The defence, in extenuation, merely
pleaded, that defeenkost's property was not so great as was
stated, and that the young lady had not lost a husband of
•situch value, as both iunt and his father had wetted in the
lead mines of Caernarvonthire, and were as illiterate as the
A.:v.4 of the taboo-m:3.

_Lord Ellenborough commented nn the disgraceful dupll-
- of the delenslant, and his most Wallloll barbarity, in
playing Avid' the tenderest feelings of the most tender sea.—
film Jury gave a verdict, Damages 10001.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

CRIM. CON.

ooroviTott r. FEU I M. A DE.
VW% eras a rase in which much carelessness was apparent in
the conduct of the husband, and much depravity on the part
a the woman and sedaeer.—Mrs. Vouglitou was suffered to
tide about with Vermicide, and go to balls, operas, 4ie. and lie
,took advantage of such opportnnitivs to dishonour the man
-whom he called his Iliecl.—Damages 4001.
In the same Court, another action for critn con. Major-
•Aaeo. Griffiths plaintiff, Capt. Brown, 11th foot, defendant.
'the parties became acquainted at Gibraltar while in garri-
son there. Slns. Griffiths, who is daughter of a Baronet, re.
turned to Wand in 1814, on account of ill health--the Cap.
Actin sot% followed, and joined the lady at Southampton,
'where they lived together tiH the General soddenly arriving.
beat up their quarters, after au absence of more than twelve
months, and they retreated to Exeter, where the lady was
delivered of a child.—ln defence, Commie! pleaded Isis client
seas only-2S, and the lady 42, and that he bad been heolueed
by the entauglingsnarts of an eaperionced WOlMlll.—Yerdict,
'Damages 10001.