Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-20
ADA HERR.
The Affections Of an Actress Trified
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The Affections Of an Actress Trified
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Some time since the item was
floating around in the papers that
Ada u. Webb, the popular and fas-
eIonatlng actress, and one of the
ceieDrated "Webb Sisters was
about to be married. Later the
paragraph was current that she had
married and retired from the STAGE.
and later still, was paragraph
denying the aforementioned report
Amid all these rumors and counter
rumOrs, seemed altogether likely
that the fair Ada was not entirely
free from matrimonial entansIe-
ments of some sort. And such
seems TO have been the fact, for we
find on the reetords Of the Wayne
Circuit Court that action WIS com
menced on the Goth ult, by Ada
j.. Webb against John Skae, for
breach of promise of marriage, and
the damages are laid at $4,000.
Three counts are set up. The |
first is, that in the city of Detroit, |
in January, 1868, the said Ada u. |
Webb and John Skae plighted their
troth. That is not exactly the
Phraseology Of the legal document,
but it conveys to the popular mind
better idea Of what was done by
Ada and John than would the YER
bose document of half dozen
pages of legal cap with its where
ases and saids and aforesaids. In
fact they made a verbal contract to
be married to each other within a
year, or in January, 1869. The
sisters were playing an engagement
in this city at the former date, and
Skae was most assiduous in his ats
tentions as lover. The first count
further alleges that Ada made this
promise of marriage in good faith,
sincerely relying upon the party of
the second part TO stand by his
pledges like a man; that she
then expected to fulfill her promise,
ana was ready to do so, and has
been ready ever since. abb. sr
The second count charges the un-
faithfulness of Skae, and sets forth
that whereas the plaintiff was ready
at the time agreed upon to be mar
ried, and has been ready ever since,
the defendant positively and abso-
lately refused to marry her. She
alleges that she repeatedly and fire.
quently urged upon him to make :
good to her his promise of MARI. i
age, but he has put her off from
time to time, and now utterly re-
fuses to marry her, and although
she was ready and willing during
all this time. .a - ..r...s
The third and last count setsforth
that upon her engagement With :
Skae to be married in January, D
1869, it was understood that she I
was to retire from the stage, which Q
profession she had previously fol-
Owed as a means of support to her
self and her mother; that she did so
retire from the stage on that &C {
count, and has since that time been
deprived of that means of support.
For this reason, and for injuries to
her feelings by reason of the fail
nre of the defendant TO fulfill his ?
promise, she claims damages to the :
amount of $4,000, The attorneys A
IN the case are Moore & Griffin for Il
the plaintiff, and Dickinson & Dick a
nson for the defendant. The case .
S likely to be very closely con
.ested one, but it hiss not yet been
yet down for trial-DetroH (HIck.)
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