Morgan v. Yarborough
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the District Court of East Feliciana, Burke, J. contended : This is an action for a breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiff alleges, that on or about the month of December, 1.844, and at divers and sundry times, said time in said State of Louisiana,’’ the defendant undertook and faithfully promised to marry plaintiff &c. By an amended petition, allowed by court, the promise was alleged to have been reciprocally made. This amendment was properly allowed.
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APPEAL from the District Court of East Feliciana, Burke, J. contended : This is an action for a breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiff alleges, that on or about the month of December, 1.844, and at divers and sundry times, said time in said State of Louisiana,’’ the defendant undertook and faithfully promised to marry plaintiff &c. By an amended petition, allowed by court, the promise was alleged to have been reciprocally made. This amendment was properly allowed. It bases in furtherance of justice and the omission clearly a clerical error; for the form is copied from Chitty’s…
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the court was pronounced by
Slidell, J.
The plaintiff claims from the defendant $20,000 damages for a breach of promise of marriage. The defendant admits that he corresponded with the plaintiff upon- the subject of marriage, but that he desisted, and had a right to desist from his addresses, before any reciprocal engagement was made, because he found her character to be such as to render her unfit to become his wife and the step-mother of his children; that by unchaste and unladylike conduct she had fallen into disrepute.
The jury found a verdict for $1000 in favor of the…
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