Carney v. McGilvray

Mrs. Cordelia Carney sued Duncan Mc-Gilvray in the circuit court of Forrest county on a breach of contract—his failure to carry out a promise of marriage.

The defendant pleaded the general issue, and gave notice thereunder that on the trial he would undertake to prove that she did not in good faith expect to marry him and become his wife, and perform the duties of a wife to her husband; that she (the plaintiff) was under the impression that he (the defendant) was a man of wealth; that she knew he was old, and believed he had only a short time to live, and sought to inveigle him into a marriage…