Simpson v. Black

This is an action to recover damages for a breach of promise of marriage. Among other matters, the defendant set up in his answer that during the time the plaintiff claimed to have been waiting for the defendant to come to her place of residence to marry her, she was using her best endeavors to marry one McGill, and that she did during the same time receive visits from different men with a view to matrimony. There was some testimony offered in support of this part of the answer. And the court was asked,on behalf of the defendant, to instruct the jury that if they found the fact to be that the…