Bennett v. Beam

The action in this case was brought to recover damages for breach of a contract to marry.

I. It is alleged as error that the plaintiff was allowed to prove a promise to marry when certain buggies, which were in process of manufacture, were finished, while the declaration alleged a promise (1) upon request; (2) within a reasonable time; and (3) generally.

This evidence was properly admitted. It was a part of the entire transaction of what was said by the parties, and it was for the jury to determine, not from any particular sentence or conversation, but from all the facts and circumstances of…