Houser v. Carmody

This was an action for damages for

breach of promise to marry and seduction, in which plaintiff recovered a substantial judgment. The case is before us for review upon writ of error.

The proofs show without dispute that plaintiff was an unmarried woman about 27 years old, employed as a telephone operator at Watervliet, Berrien county, and lived *124with her brother-in-law’s family; that defendant was an unmarried man of considerable property, 45 years old, who owned and conducted a drug store separated from the place where the plaintiff lived by an alley; that defendant lived in apartments over…