Kelley v. Highfield

This is an action to recover damages for breach of a promise to marry. The complaint alleges mutual promises of marriage between the parties on or about December 17, 1877, the marriage to take place within a reasonable time thereafter. It is also alleged in the complaint that by the mutual consent of the parties, the marriage ceremony was postponed from time to time during the subsequent years down to and until about the sixth day of April, 1885, at which time it was mutually agreed that such marriage ceremony, which by mutual consent of the parties had been postponed until that time, should…