Couture v. Thompson

By JUDGE JOHN W. WINSTON

Plaintiff moves this Court to overrule defendant’s Demurrer and Plea of the Statute of Limitations earlier filed by his counsel (who has now withdrawn). The Court denies in part the motion as to the demurrer, grants the motion as to the statute of limitations.

What plaintiff has set out in the two counts of her Motion for Judgment in nearly all respects states a breach of a promise to marry cause of action. But since 1968 that civil cause of action has been abolished in Virginia by its General Assembly as a matter of public policy. Virginia Code § 8.01-220. Hence what…