Parks Ex Rel. Parks v. Marshall

This is an action for the breach of a contract of marriage. The jury returned a verdict for $15,000 in favor of plaintiff, and defendant appealed from the judgment entered on the verdict.

The facts submitted in behalf of plaintiff warrant the finding that plaintiff, then a young woman in her nineteenth year, still attending school, came in contact with defendant in the fall of 1923, in Charleston, Missouri, where plaintiff resided. However, she had previously met him in January, 1923. Defendant's purpose in Charleston was to attend a football game. After the game, defendant came to her home…