Wright v. Wright

MISER, C.

In May, 1927, respondent Charlie Wright, then a widower, employed as housekeeper his present wife, respondent Minnie Wright, then Mrs. Schmidt, a ¡widow. Within a few months they exchanged mutual promises of marriage. When, finding herself pregnant by him, she demanded immediate fulfillment of the promise on which he had assured her she might rely in their premarital intercourse, he refused to marry. On September 29, 1927, she asked advice of appellant D. May Joyce, a practicing lawyer in Aberdeen. Appellant sent her back to Wright to ask him again to keep his promise. Wright again…