The Asgburton Guardian.

Vol xxi. no. 5568

Ashburton ,' Saturday, January 11, IPO2.

Price ; One Penny

The Lady Artists Breach of Promise Action

£500 DAMAGES AWARDED.

In the Oonrt of Session on Got 14tb, * jury under the Lord Justice Q'.erk awarded Mrs Brodie, artist, £600 damages for breach of prai*is« of mar* riage in her action against David Mac* gregor, contractor. Strathbungo. Tha previous trial resulted in her being awarded £5000, but the Court let aside the verdict on the ground of being excessive. The evidence led at the previous trial was again gone into at great length. The Lord Justice Olark, in the course of his charge, said this was in many respects a remarkable case. Probably in the region of such cases there had not been anything more extraordinary than the story [they had just listened to. It was quite certain that there was a severe and sharp con flict of evidence between the witnesses. The evidence on the one side and the other was absolutely eon?radictory. There had been on the one side or the other a certain amount of absolute untruth, and that made the position of the jury more difficult than it was in ordinary cases. The nature of the case presented by the parties invohed three different sections. There was the previous history of Mrs Brodie, there was the history of the alleged promise of marriage, and there wwi the history of the alleged breach of it. With regard to the former history ef Mrs Brodie, the only real facts they had were that she brought an action of divorce against her husband on the ground of cruelty and adultery, and that she waa successful. She wm •left with three children, for whom her former husband never did anything. She had been trained early in painting, and after the divcrca she came to this country and took to painting. Evidently she worked hard, and had to canv»as people to endeavour to sell her pictures. There was nothing discreditable abonl that, and sppareosly for a number of years she was able to do well by her childrer/, having nothing in the world except £45 a year, provided by the family- of her late husband. Then came the very disagreeable and sad incident in her life which resulted in her receiving £10,000 from a man who had wronged her. Undoubtedly, if she was going to marry another man and did not reveal that incident to him, that would be sufficient reason for his refusing to carry out the promise, . His Lordship dealt with the history of the promise and its alleged breach, and 'said that the first question the jury had to con sider was—Had the pursuer debarred herself by anything in her past history | which waa not revealed to the defender, from maintaining the promise if it Wat made ? The second question wsb—Did the defender make the promise 1 If he I did be had failed to fulfil it, and the only remaining question was that of damages. Upon that maCter the jury would form their own opinion, keeping in view that it waa desirable to avoid another new trial,

fihe jury returned, after an absence of half an hoar, with a unanimous verdict for the pursner, and assessed the damages at £500. They were of opinion that the pursuer was not de« barred from maintaining the promise, and that the defender had promised her marriage. The defender before the trial began made an offer of £1500 and expenses,



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