Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-04-28

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dited effusive love letters to the plain
tin. telling her how constantly he
thought of her while awake and how
he dreamed Of her while asleep, touch.
ingly adding. while | am tossed to
and fro on this wide ocean. l love thee
still"
Yet Notwithstanding all this the mad
lover broke OFF his engagement.
The plaintiffs .cnurtings was fully
rs successful as had been that of the
defendant, for she recovered a judg.
nlent for Sl.5oO.
II 4 Vermont ease the plaintiff aud
defendant were neighbors. and the de-
~fena,tat paid neighborly visits TO the
plniniili's family. 1t was shown that
tlrsr visits We're III first to the entire
family and thai they were gradually
narrowed until they We're confined to
tlte plaintiff alone, This fact. together
With The proof that during the periods
Of tie defendants visits lights were
frequently seen burning in tile parlor
oit saturday and sunday evenings and
some other circumstances. led the jury
10 find for the plaintiff.
! very cruel case occurred in Miehi
gan. a man who, strange to relate.
bore the name of Constant while on.
gagged in counting had his financial eye
open and borrowed money from the
lady On his last visit 10 her he re-
newed his notes for one and two years
and then went off and married the 9th.
en- Girl The court held that il was
proper to allow proof of this money
transaction, holding that ian engage
ment broken or suddenly and without
warning would very naturally create
more pain and modification than IL
ended under any other circumstances,
anu il a jury were 70 regard this con
duct concerning money matters as cal
culated. under the circumstances, to
have caused additional grounds Of pain
or grievance to the defendant in error.
we think they would not be violating
ordinary probabilities
Where the defendant asked the hand
OF the lady in the presence of the lat
ter's mother, who consented, and the
lady said nothing and the defendant
thereupon gently took the hand Of the
mother and touchingly said. Hence.
forth consider me as your SON.. 1t was
held sufficient proof Of the lady's con
sent. and in a New York case the lady
was permitted to show that she had
procured a wedding dress and had
gone SO far as to get a wedding cake.
rs showing her acceptance. while III
Iowa the plaintiff was allowed to prove
In support Of her acceptance that she
was making preparation for her mar.
riage .piecing quilts and doing fancy
work. and that when she heard Of de
PENDANTS marriage she hated II aw-
full bad"
While the law makes II easy to prove
a proposal by the gentleman and equal
~ easy to show that the lady accepted.
when il to evidence showing a
release on the part Of the lady the proof
must be strong to sustain the defense.
In one ease a bachelor of fifty.tbree
had been paying his respects to il
maiden Of forty-three summers for the
unlucky period OF thirteen years. Dur
ing all this time she declared to others
that she would never marry him and
spoke of him in terms of derision and
contempt. After thirteen years OF
courtship the bachelor summoned suf
ficient courage to propose and was
promptly accepted. After the engage
ment he heard of the double dealings
of the maid and refused to marry her.
The court held it was no defense to the
action, although It might 20 in mitiga-
ton Of damages.
In a Pennsylvania case the lady
wrote the defendant d letter In which
she said 4 don't want You. for | know
that ] would have q devils life Of II.
II you were any kind of a gentleman.
YOU would not act as you have. ] pray
night and day that you may mover
prosper in this world. ! Just pray for
every hair IN yonr head 70 come out
And yet she recovered a judgment for
$1,000.
In looking beneath the surface for
the reason for this verdict 1t Is quite
evident that the jury believed that the
lady vas goaded to desperation by the
attentions of her fiance to her rival
and that she did not In fact mean to
say that she did not want to marry
him and did not really desire that he
lose all his hair, for In her letter she
says cruelty OF her rival, "Well, IL !
/ am poor l do not wear the one hat for
Ave or six years, like she does. and
turn 1t hind part before. like she does"
Under the weight Of authority, then,
II q party does not want to find him.
self in the eyes of the law an engaged
man he must look well to his daily
walk and conversation, for II he has
20 conducted himself as to be estopped
from denying the engagement he will
have a difficult problem to convince n
judge and Jury that the lady has duly
released him.-Green Bag.