Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-20
THE coUar RRoonD.
Superior Court /. OWL Side - Jui

Prentice.
There was another large and interested
audience in the superior court, civil side,
yesterday morning to hear the continuance OF
the Delphi billiard breach Of promise suit.
Clinton, Madison and other Shore Line
towns were represented by . host Of interest
ed femininity of all ages. Miss DELPHI ap.
peared without her parents or sister and sat
alone by her counsel. The testimony had
been taken, aud yesterday was assigned for
the arguments. Attorney Whitney In his
plea for the plaintiff tried to bind the de-
PENDANT to his client more strongly by re-
viewing evidence showing that guests had
been invited and presents received, although
the exact date of marriage had not been
agreed upon. There was no agreement to
marry Evarts, but II there had been, by Hi
lizards refusal, she had really lost two men:
We find billiard actuatsd by feelings OF
honor and right, as he says, accepting the
statements of q Tilted man, who was no doubt
urged on by feelings of revenge and who In
his letter said he would give more facts II
they were desired by billiard. billiard
breaks his engagement to this girl In cruel,
outrageous and brutal manner. In New York
deoisions aggravating damages are eontrasted
from compensatory damages. She was led
to believe she would receive homo and
position and secure husband of means
and standing positions to which she was
entitled by her engagement, and for the
loss of all this $4,000 is not too much.
She had the immediate prospect of happy
home. The fact that she could or would get
married eventually anyway is probability
that always exists. Every day We find
blushine naidens and widows and divorced
women Of sixty and seventy years led to the
altar. Laughter.) It was unnecessary, he
said, to introduce any evidence Of how the
breaking of the engagement affected her.
The letter they introduced shows that. II Is
filed with pathos and was written in tears.
He had inflicted most grfevious wrong on
one that loved him. She has sufficiently re-
covered to make another engagement.
Attorney Zacher, for the defendant, said
the first thing he had learned in law was that
marriage should be recognized. He thought
BILE to allow Mas Dolph to get married, as
she intended. From her own testimony she
is convicted of having been engaged to Mr..
Evarts. She writes to Evarts while he was
out west that billiard had proposed to her,
but that she has refused him. What does
she tell Hilliard3 She shows him Evarts'
photograph and tells billiard that she would
marry Evarts only for him. She has acted
very automatically. She kept two balls
IOllIuk COubbautlys EuPPobou SA0e GAS
heart Of man was just a. sensitive as the
heart of woman. She wants $1,000 for her
torn and lacerated heart and fails to give .
thought to the fact that she was tearing two
hearts just as sensitive a. hers.
Ex-Judge Harrison closed the defense
with q sparkling and effective resume of the
evidence. Miss Dolph met Mr.. Evarts on
were shining, said he. He called az her
home. They occupied the parlor and she
was properly chaperoned, with or without 9
fire. After time they met alone, occupied
the sofa together, and sometimes on . Sum
day night, which seems to be consecratsd for
love-making, presumably because the bloom
ing youth would wear his best clothes, they
west to seek his fortune. They correspond
ed. He sent her letter Of proposal. She
answers that If abe thinks the same of him
when he returns AZ she did then, she would.
Wasn't that an engagement If 1t isn't,
what Isl When he comes home she permits
Mr.. Evarts to kiss her while she has the en-
eagement ring of another man on her finger.
Can woman who acts that way before mar
rage be trusted after iti Was not billiard
justified in refusing to marry such q
womans Will pure-mindsd woman act
that wsy9 Does she not know that there is
only one love in marrisgei When Mr.. Hill
lizard takes her to task for her relations with
Mr.. Evarts she says: oh, it's all right. Gus
don't mind it. One man is as good a. an
other.' There are some young women in the
world so constituted, perhaps happily eonsti-
tuted, as to believe that one person is as good
a. another, 80 long az tho person is man.
If that IL Miss Dolphs standard of love aud
marriage see what Mr.. billiard escaped. She
wants 50, 600 damages. She says she intends
to marry when this suit Is ended. Does she
want Mr.. Hilliard's 5000 to pay for the
honeymoon hope, your honor, by your
Judgment 10 day will teach to the youth of
the state of Connecticut that there should be
honor In love % we'll a. In business"
Attorney Whiting closed for the plaintiff
with an overhsuling Of the arguments which
the court had listened to.
Judge Prentice said the case was peculiar
one which furnished questions Of law which
he wished to think upon. He reserved his
decision.
OTHER CAsxs.
Judgment of $50 was rendered In the case
of Albert L. Holden, administrator against
the town of New Haven. Holden sued for
50, 600 damages for the drowning of his son,
Albert NJ. holden, on the afternoon of Oeto-
Der IA, 1889. The plaintiff claimed that in
leaving the draw of Quinnipiac bridge un-
protected without gates, danger signals or
watchmen, Holden met his death and the
town was liable In psouniary damages.
The application Of Kessler & Co., to be
made parties defendant In the suit Of the
Continental Construction and Improvement
company, was denied.
The divorce suit Of william G. Ssville
against Mary z. Saville 10 pending. The
case Is brought for desertion.
Cisy Cours-Civil side-Jsdse Dsming.
William Button, violation of ordinance de
6re escape, nolled on payment Of costs; Ter
renee Brady, violation of ordinance de layout
of streets, appealed to March term of the
superior court; same, building without q
permit, appealed; Psttro dc Christie vsochio,
violation Of liquor law, discharged; John
Freensy, non-support of family, continued
to March 10; Daniel Casey. Charles kulvsy
and Tony Delair, breach Of the peace, nolled;
Louis Scott, breach of the peace, IS nne and
1924 costs.
Court Notes.
FUN FOR TIE BOYS,
Mrs. Mary s. Perry, the old lady who was
severely injured by tripping and falling over