Huggins v. Carey

This appeal is from a judgment in appellee’s favor for $35,000 actual, and $10,000 special, damages for .a breach of a contract of marriage. Substantially the case as presented by appellee’s petition and evidence is that, after a preliminary meeting, acquaintance, and an association of several months, J. L. Huggins on the 25th day of December, 1906, proposed marriage with appellee, and she accepted, no specific date for the marriage being fixed; that the promised relation of husband and wife continued until January 1, 1911, when appellant openly declined to further recognize or comply with…