Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-18
Love and the Law.

MARRIAGE CONTRACT WITH A MAN WHO HAD
No MIND OF HIS OWN.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
What promises to be an interesting case was
commenced by the filing of a suit in the ius-
tees court yesterday. Martin Rubanick is the
plaintiff. and, through his lawyers, alleges that
Joseph Drindel owes him $3.50 for breach of
contract. The peculiar part of the suit is in the
alleged breach of contract. Rubanick is an
able-bodied, tall young man OF nineteen sum-
mers and works in lumber mill. 1t appears
from the complaint that he gave Drindel $3.50
With which to have Annie Swabeck sent out
from Hungary to this city to become Ruba-
hicks bride, the marriage to liquidate the
debt. In due time Annie came but uncle and
sutton apparently forgot to make allowances
for the young frauleins tastes, and as Martin al
ieges, she would have none of him, SO that he
Is injured in his pride and out of pocket to the
extent of Sl30. For the money loss he seeks
compensation and SO has sued Joseph Drindel
for :l3O on the ground that the contract has
not been kept.
The tinsmith's side of the question differs
slightly from Rubanick's, and when Drindel
was found in his store yesterday he told some
what different version of the Young lumber
mans love warnings. He said that about
eighteen months ago Martin was in the habit OF
visiting him and his wife. and often told them
OF his desire to get married They urged him
to marry an American girl, but he preferred
one OF his own countrywomen. and piled the
tlnsmith and his wife with questions about
their niece. Finally he made up his
mind to have Annie sent out TO him.
Although Drindel said the girl was too
young and too small for Rubanick, the
youth insisted that time would cure both de-
fects, and the tinsmith washed his hands of the
business, leaving the would-be Benedict TO ar
range his own affairs. Drindel SAYS that Ruba.
nick sent the Sl30 he now claims to Annie's
relatives, and that he never saw a cent of it
and made no agreement with Rubanick to re-
| pay him II the young immigrant would not
wed the wife-seeker. The money was sent
| whoever did send it, in December. 1888. and
SIX months later little faxen-haired blue
eyed girl OF fourteen years and six months OF
age was welcomed to Drinders home.
| In the young girls own words for she was
also seen yesterday, she was "auite ready Il
wed young Rubanick." She confessed that she
was then and is still both young and little. bu
she knows how to keep house and believes she
/ might have added NANNY sunny DAYS 20 Mar
/ TINS lonesome life. Martin, however sale
she was too young, and dallied with hel
until she applied 10 her uncle to find hel
work. Drindel obtained work for hi
little niece, and when Rubanick saw
that she was likely to attract some othel
swain he proposed and received the unexpectef
mitten. Annie told the lumberman that he die
not know his own mind, and she feared SO mucl
that he would change again that she would no
give him the opportunity. Martin strove hare
10 alter the girls opinions, but only confirmed
them. Finally, not wishing to lose both Bird,
| and cash, he has sued Drindel for the latter
kubanick alleges that Annie's only objection 4
him Is that he is too tall.
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