Schofield v. Miltimore
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Portage County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: This action was commenced June 8,1887. The complaint alleges two causes of action. One is a breach of a promise to marry, made on or about June 1, 1886, for which the plaintiff claims $2,000 damages.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Portage County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Cassoday: This action was commenced June 8,1887. The complaint alleges two causes of action. One is a breach of a promise to marry, made on or about June 1, 1886, for which the plaintiff claims $2,000 damages. The other is a breach of contract made on or before January 1, 1887, to convey to the plaintiff one of two houses and lots, of the value of $2,000, he then owned in Janesville, which she might select, in consideration of her relinquishing her employment in the state of…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
The plaintiff is five years older than the defendant, and was the sister of his first wife. She died in July, 1835, and the plaintiff’s husband died a short time before, in Oregon, where he and she then resided. A correspondence commenced between the plaintiff and the defendant in July, 1885, and continued until January 19,188U Early in that correspondence the defendant wrote the plaintiff, in effect urging her to come to his house and have and care for everything just as his wife had left them; that if she would come and live with him he would do just the same for her that he would have done…
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