Burton v. Valentine

This is a breach of promise case brought for $50,000. It was tried before a jury in the Superior Court in Phoenix, Maricopa County. A verdict of $5,000 was awarded appellee.

Charles E. Burton was a well-known livestock man with interests mainly in Northern Arizona. He was a married man in the year of 1930, at the time the parties to this action first met, but was not living with his wife and was divorced from his wife, Mabel Frankfurter Burton, in California on October 31,1932.

Appellee was the wife of Carl A. Valentine and lived with her husband at Grand Canyon, Arizona. She remained his wife…