The evening world., 1903-11-13
Appellate Division at Albany
Puts the Judicial Seal Upon
THE Value of Miss Pettit's
0scuIatory Favors.
sUIToR GOT 1895 OF THEM
Her Valuation In q Suit for Breach
OF Promise Was More than $40
Each, but Jury and Judge Cruelty
Cut Down Rate.

1she Appellate Division. Third Depart
mont. has established a schedule OF
Oscillation. To Justices sitting In Albany
ktsses. when bestowed In quantities ex-
oeeding 1000. are valued at ~ each.
That Is when the woman Is the aggrieved
party to the action. What a mans
kisses are worth to his offended self is
still a matter for future adjudication.
Miss Frances Petit. OF Galway. Sara-
to6a County. sued James P. Tittemore
on May II for $4,000. Breach OF promise
was her plant.
.He kissed me 1925 times" said the
complainant. 81 have been damaged to
the extent OF $50 co.,"
The trial court and the jury pondered
the evidence long and carefully. A
verdict of 5000 was finally awarded to
the oma Tittemose WINGED under tn
laws declared penalty and soon after
went into voluntary bankruptcy. Then
ne appealed from the Judgment OF the
trial court. Yesterday the judgment was
affirmed by the Appellate Division. and
Ttterorc stands before the law a debtor
10 Miss Petit In rhe sum of $1,000. His
LOG kisses, mingled with signs and pro-
testatious of love. will cost h $40
each
h Kept a Record.
Miss Petit Is a very accurate young
woman. Her life habits have been built
upon a foundation Of artthmetical
action. She dotes upon statistics, and
problems In number are her speciality.
On the nights when Tittemore was most
ardent she was kept busy, but never a
kiss escaped her count. When her sutton
had said his good-bys Miss Petit would
rush at once to her room. pull out her
ledger and therein inscribe to her own
credit the number of kisses that came
her way during the evening.
Miss Petit did not take the trouble to
classify the kisses Of the ardent wooer.
TO her a kiss was a kiss. The accumu-
laton, when looked upon In the retro
spect. made It very aggravating to her
peace OF mind. As number has value.
h seemed to believe that each kiss was
worth more than s4o-to Tittemore. But
the trial court had a fixed valuation OF
tts own. They thought Miss Petit set
TOO big a value upon her osculatory
qualifications. Two dollars and forty odd
cents was a good round figure. and the
@io al lAC S11G
was of the same mind.
Tdttemore is fully fifty years old and
ought to know the value of kisses when
q young woman fifteen years his Junior
II concerned. The courtship extended
over a period OF ten months. which takes
some of the romance out OF It. For by
actual computation Mss Petit received
only 1.3 and clio kisses a month-about
A...- A-IR ,
average is struck.
Why the brcach7 Hints during The
trial of another woman showed that
Miss Pettit's kisses were not to be trined
with.
~ always keep an accurate account OF
everything" said Miss, Petit during the
trial. =
Kept Count OF Meals.
She knew how many meals Tittemore
had eaten In her house during the time
he paid court to her. She had occupied
one OF the houses which he owned for
more than nine years.. and when the diff
ferences' sprang up. in their lives the
sutton asked the young woman for Mint
years rent. She put In a cross bill, de-
manding payment for all the meals
"NA HSi ioNihB baatuo td pFepdItu.
1t was then found that Tlbtemore was
indebted to her. so he said no more
about the rent.
When the jury's verdict made Miss
Petit the winner In the osculatory con-
test Tittemore refused to pay the money.
Then the very automobile which Kissed
its way over the tree-iined roads when
the full moon shone upon them 9th was
levied upon by HI attorneys Of the
woman.
While Miss Petit was waiting for the
5000 she married Gordon w. Steadman.
In this she partially got even with her
old sutton. for he was married some
years age. His first venture was with a
fourteen-year-old girl who hailed from
Massachusetts,.
And o in the law books there will
be found In the index: Oscuiation, valu-
alton JoflS2.42.