Cook v. Newman

Pratt, Justice.

On the 3d day July, 1852, the defendant, Amelia Newman, recovered a judgment against the plaintiff for $369,14, in an action for a breach of promise of marriage, and sold the premises of plaintiff, to satisfy it, on the 15th day November thereafter," to defendant, Schoen. The plaintiff was a householder, and as such, in the actual occupancy of the lot sold. Previous to the recovery of the judgment and the commencement of the suit, but subsequent to the breach of promise for which the action was brought, the plaintiff being then a householder, filed the requisite notice to…