The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-21

future prosecution. Mr.. Huddleston tried
the very common clumsy device, of pre-
tending to construe a letter of natural re-
monstrance against his Inconsistency into an
implied release, and answering as though
the lady had revoked their engagement her
self. As Miss Redhead had done nothing
of the kind, however, she responded to the
implication with the assurance that she
should hold the gentleman to his matrimo-
NAL promise, and thence her action against
him in law as above noticed. Plaintiffs
counsel having rccited this story TO the
Court, the counsel for defence made the
best statement he could for his client, main
tanning that the engagement between the
parties was made subject to the consent of
defendants father, which, at the last mo-
mcnt, had been refused. But bench and
jurors refused to take any serious view of
the filial subsection of Il lover fifty years
old, and Il verdict for 81 $50 was promptly
awarded to the aggricvcd lady. That was
'saucc for the goose" rs the old saving
goes, and its dispensation typified the Brit
ish juryman's average alcrtness to vindicatc
the fair sex but in another breach of prom.
Use suit. prosecuted in the same week at the
Lincoln Assizes, the "sauce Tor the gander'
was not so obviously conceded. In the latter
action young farmer named Smith, of
DttpihP OF DuInts, WAS tlt Dlulf1tlU, anu
the defendant a certain lively Miss Fanny
Jenkinson who, after engaging herself to
Smith, had heartlcssly written to him,
Dear Friend; / write few lines to say
l think shall not be married at all, so you
must make the best of it. / feel very sorry
for it, and for you. ! hope you will not
write. as | shall not write to YOU. / wish
had told you on Monday, that you might
have known what to do. | don't think
have amy more to say to you. Your friend,
Fanny Jenkinson." As, aside from his lac
Grated feelings, the young yeoman had ex-
pended ga matter of twenty pun" in prep
aration for his wedding with the writer of
this chilling missive, he was not disposed to
be dismissed with such extreme ease of
manner. and brought II suit against her for
breach of promise accordingly. In justifi-
cation of the action he testified that the en-
gagement for marriage had been the pro-
posal of Miss Fanny herself, and she had
even been engaged the two gentlemen who
were to act as groomsmen. In her own ev-
idence Miss Jenkins did not deny these
points; nor did she make il appear that her
| hnal remuneration of the compact had any
better cause than sudden caprice By the
facts ELECTED, indeed, Mr.. Smiths case was
strong as need be but by aesthetic sentiment,
or social principle, it appeared to he mat
ter of mere pleasantly to judge and jurors,
ellis Lordshp' himself cracking profess
ional joke about a kiss said to have been ex-
changed between the litgants at their last
meeting. Nothing but sounds of mirth did
the torlorn young farmer evoke by his story
of wrong, and at last the suit was fairly
laughed out of court. 4 comic view is the
one. too, that the average reader is most
likely to take of it ; yet the action had as
much basis in pecuniary justice as had that
of Miss Redhead at Lancaster. why, then
the difference of award? Because it is i'm
possible for man to present the same eff.
feet OF injury as a woman on the plaintiff
side of trial for breach of promise. A
man may show that he has been wronged
in purse, and even temporarily in social
status, by the refusal of n woman to fulfil
her marriage engagement with him; but the
social and other detriment to the disdaincd
woman is always so much greater than any
Tilted mans can reasonably be thar the Jury
mans monetary distinction in her favor
means nominal compensation for more
wrong than could enter at all into II mascu-
line action. Hence, to return to the home
~ old adage, "saucc for the goose" in n
breach of promise case is an altogether too
liberal enrichment for ''the gander," and
the latter's claim thereto is pretty sure to
receive more contumely than liqudation.-
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