Graham v. Martin

Catharine Martin, on the 27th day of January, 1876, sued Thomas Graham for a breach of promise of marriage. Her complaint was in two paragraphs. The first charged, that, “On the 1st day of December, 1874, and at divers other days and times, before and after that time, at Henry county, Indiana, in consideration that the said plaintiff, being then and there an unmarried female, of the proper age to be joined in matiimony, a.t the special instance and request of said defendant, had then and there undertook and faithfully promised the said defendant to marry him on the 1st day of March, 1875, he…