Green v. Spencer

Spencer, the defendant in error, brought her action in the Circuit Court against Green, the plaintiff in error, for a breach of marriage contract, and got a verdict and judgment for $5,000; to reverse which judgment Green now prosecutes his writ of error in this Court.

The evidence given on the trial in the Circuit Court, as preserved in the bill of exceptions, is in substance, that the plaintiff' in error, after having been a suitor of the defendant for a year or more, entered into a contract with her to marry her in May, 1832, upon a day fixed; that a short time after the contract was…