BREACH OF PROMISE BY A FOOTMAN
... In the Common Pleas, on the 16th instant, an action was brought by Mary Ann Disdale, the plaintiff, for a breach of promise of marriage against Ambrose Buckingham, the defendant. The damages were laid at £200. Mr. Sorjscant Shea and Mr. Joseph Brown appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Macauley, Q.C., for the defendant. It appeared from the evidence that the plaintiff and the defendant in 1847 ...