Dean v. Skiff
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract in three counts. The first count alleged that the plaintiff and the defendant mutually agreed and promised to marry each other; that the plaintiff had always been ready to marry the defendant, but the defendant refused to perform his promise. The second count alleged that the defendant entered into the following contract with the plaintiff: “ Long Plain, Sept. 4, 1875. For value received, I promise to pay Lydia B. Dean one thousand dollars the day I am married.
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Contract in three counts. The first count alleged that the plaintiff and the defendant mutually agreed and promised to marry each other; that the plaintiff had always been ready to marry the defendant, but the defendant refused to perform his promise. The second count alleged that the defendant entered into the following contract with the plaintiff: “ Long Plain, Sept. 4, 1875. For value received, I promise to pay Lydia B. Dean one thousand dollars the day I am married. Abram Skiffthat the defendant had, since the date of said contract, married a person other than the plaintiff, whereby the…
1Opinion of the CourtLord, J.
1. The first exception which we are called upon to consider is whether the court erred in refusing to admit testimony of the kindly relations between these parties in the year 1839, and during subsequent years up to the year 1875. The case finds that in 1839 neither of the parties was married, but that each was subsequently married to another person, and the evidence offered was that the plaintiff and the defendant, before their several marriages, had kindly feelings toward each other, and, during their married lives, the two families interchanged friendly visits. If there were nothing else…
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