Baldy v. Stratton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Writ of error to the Common Pleas of Columbia. July 11. This was an action on the case for breach of promise of marriage, in which Fanny Stratton was the plaintiff, and Paul R. Baldy was the defendant.
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Writ of error to the Common Pleas of Columbia. July 11. This was an action on the case for breach of promise of marriage, in which Fanny Stratton was the plaintiff, and Paul R. Baldy was the defendant. Among other evidence adduced by the plaintiff to support her action, was the following:— Chester Stratton testified, that at the request of the plaintiff, he called on the defendant, and among other things, asked him what amends he was willing to make for the gross violation of decency he had committed; to which the defendant replied, that he was willing to take the plaintiff to a justice in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of this court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
Although an action for breach of a promise of marriage is an action on a contract, yet the circumstances which attend its breach,* before, at the time, and after, may be given in evidence in aggravation of damages. This I have never known to he disputed; and so far has this principle been extended, that Chief Justice Parsons, a jurist of acknowledged talents, in Paul v. Frazier, 3 Mass. Rep. 73, ruled, that where seduction has been practised under colour of a promise of marriage, the jury may consider it to aggravate the damages in an action…
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