Clement v. Skinner
Supreme Court of Vermont
Special assumpsit on a contract to marry. Plea, general issue. Trial by jury. Orleans County, March Term, 1899, Start, J., presiding. Yerdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
I. The defendant claimed that there was a variance between plaintiff’s evidence and her declaration, in that the latter alleged a promise to marry in a reasonable time, while her evidence showed that the promise was to marry when she had disposed of her stock of millinery goods. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to prove that the defendant made her an offer of marriage, which she accepted, and that subsequent to her acceptance, it was talked over and settled between them that their marriage should take place as soon as she could dispose of her stock of goods-This leaves it, that the promise to…
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