Hunter v. Hatfield

The complaint of the appellee, against the appellant, avers that- the parties on the-day of July, 1873, mutually agreed with each other to intermarry, which marriage contract was to be consummated on the 6th day of November, 1873 : that the plaintiff remained unmarried, and still is unmarried, but that the defendant, on the 18th day of December, 1873, in breach of said marriage promise, married one Anna Beer, all of which is particularly averred, with time and place.

The appellant answered in two special paragraphs, admitting the promise, bnt that it was made under the belief that appellee was…