Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-11-09

foyase. and While or the sea he IN
lifted efTusve love letters to the plain.
tiff, telling her how constantly lie
thought of~her Willie awake and how
he dreamed of her while asleep, touch.
tngly adding, while l am tossed to
and fro on this wide ocean, love thee
STILL"
Yet Notwithstanding all this the mad
lover broke off his engagement.
The plaintiffs Counting" was fully
as successful as had been that of the
defendant, for she recovered judg
mcnt for $1,000.
In Vermont case the plaintiff and
defendant We're ncighbors, and the de-
PENDANT paid neishborly visits to the
plaintiffs family. 1t was shown that
these visits were at first to the entire
family and that they We're gradually
narrowed until they were confined to
the plaintiff alone. This fact, together
with the proof that during the periods
Of the defendants visits lights were
frequently seen burning in the parlor
OIL Saturday and Sunday evenings and
some other circumstances, led the jury
to find for the plaintiff.
A very cruel case occurred in Michi-
gan. A man who. strange to relate,
bore the name of Constant while en-.
gagged in counting had his financial eye
open and borrowed money from the
lady. On his last visit to her he re.
newed his notes for one and two years
and then went off and married the 9TH
er girl. The court held that 1t was
proper to allow proof of this money
transaction, holding that IAN engage
ment broken off suddenly and without
warning would very naturally create
more pain and modification than If
ended under any other circumstances,
and If a jury were to 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. it was
held sufficient proof of the lady's con.
sent, and in New York case the lady
was permitted to show that she had
procured wedding dress and had
gone so far as to get wedding cake,
AS showing her acceptance, while in
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 1t aw.
full bad"
While the law makes it easy to prove
a proposal by the gentleman and equal
ly easy to show that the lady accepted,
when 1t comes to evidence showing q
release on the part of the lady the proof
must be strong to sustain the defense.
III one case bachelor of fifty-three
had been paying his respects to
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-
flcient 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 go in mitiga.
ton of damages.
In a Pennsylvania case the lady
wrote the defendant letter in which
she said: II don't want you, for know
that would have devils life of 1t.
II you were any kind of gentleman,
you would not act as you have. pray
night and day that you may never
prosper in this world. just pray for
every hair in your head to 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
Indy was goaded to desperation by the
attentions Of her fance to her rivnl
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. If
nm poor do not wear tho one hat for
five or six years, like she does, and
turn 1t hind part before, like she does"
Under the weight of authority, then,
II n 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 If he has
SO conducted himself rs to be estopped
from denying the engagement lie will
have a difficult problem to convince a
Judge and jury that the lady has duly
veleased him.-Grcen Bag.