Poster v. Andrews

This is an action for breach of promise to marry, seduction being charged in aggravation, in which the jury awarded Miss Andrews fifteen thousand dollars damages. The trial judge required a remittitur and the judgment went down for seventy-five hundred dollars. The Court of Appeals sustained a plea of accord and satisfaction and dismissed the suit. This Court granted certiorari and has heard argument.

Petitioner here asserts that subsequent to the execution of the accord and satisfaction agreement other and new promises were made and broken and the recovery, may and should be related thereto,…