Brock v. Button

This is an action by Margaret J. Brock against C. A. Button for damages for breach of a marriage contract. The cause was tried before a jury, which returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. The defendant filed a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict on several grounds, one of them being:

“That from all the evidence adduced upon the trial of the cause it appears that the agreement of plaintiff and defendant to marry each other was not by its terms to have been performed within one year from the date when said agreement was made, and that said agreement to marry was not in writing…