Simmons v. Simmons

Campbell J.:

The defendant in error having obtained a judgment below against the plaintiff in error, for breach of promise to marry, it is alleged that errors occurred upon the trial below, first in hot requiring proof that the plaintiff in error was of full age when he made the promise; second, in allowing proof that he borrowed money of the defendant in error, and renewed his notes one and two years upon his last visit to her, about a week before he married another; third, in excluding proof of the frequent intermarriage of the ancestors of the parties, who were cousins, and of the evil…