Tucker v. Andrews
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This was a bill in equity, and was heard on bill, answer and proof. The principal allegations in the bill were, that the plaintiff had made a contract of marriage with a Mrs. Bales, who had personal property to the amount of fourteen hundred dollars, and that the marriage took place between them April 5, 1832 ; that the defendants aspersed the character of the plaintiff, and by false and fraudulent representations influenced and induced Mrs. Bates, without the knowledge of…
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This was a bill in equity, and was heard on bill, answer and proof. The principal allegations in the bill were, that the plaintiff had made a contract of marriage with a Mrs. Bales, who had personal property to the amount of fourteen hundred dollars, and that the marriage took place between them April 5, 1832 ; that the defendants aspersed the character of the plaintiff, and by false and fraudulent representations influenced and induced Mrs. Bates, without the knowledge of her intended husband, on the morning of the day of the marriage, with full knowledge, that it was expected to take place…
1Opinion of the Court
*127The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Weston C. J.
Peres Andrews lias, in bis answer, denied all the allegations made in the bill against him ; and as they have not been sustained by proof, he is to have judgment for his costs.
Whatever controversy there may be with respect to some of the facts, charged in the bill against Marshall Andrews, it is manifest from the bill, his answer and the proof, that the plaintiff’s wife, when on the eve of marriage, and on the morning of the day when it was solemnized, assigned her property to Marshall, for the avowed purpose of keeping it from her intended…
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