Jekshewitz v. Groswald

This is an action of tort for deceit, in which the plaintiff alleges she was induced to live with the defendant as his wife by reason of his fraudulent representation that they were lawfully married. The defendant excepted to the refusal of the judge to direct a verdict in his favor.

The parties were born in Latvia, the defendant coming to this country in 1906, and the plaintiff in 1909. The jury could have found that they first met in February, 1911, and, *415after a courtship lasting a few months, mutually promised to marry; that he gave her a ring and they announced to their friends and…