Sanders v. Coleman
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lancaster county, Tendered October 1, 1898, in an action of assumpsit, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
This is an action brought by the plaintiff to recover damages for an alleged breach by the defendant of his promise to marry her on the 27th day of April, 1898.
The declaration states with sufficient clearness and particularity the cause of action, and the demurrer was therefore properly overruled.
It appears that in December, 1897, the defendant, a man fifty-two years of age, received from the plaintiff, who was then twenty years old, a Christmas card. The defendant had met the plaintiff three years before, which was the first and only time he had seen her, though he had in the mean time sent…
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