Wheeling Times And Advertiser

BREACH OF PROMISE.—A suit brought by Miss Selina Parnell to recover damages of a Mr. Wm Lambertson, for a breach of promise of marriage, was tried in one of the Courts of the city of New York, on Monday. The particulars are thus stated in the New York Courier:

The plaintiff is a milliner and dressmaker, residing in Madison st., and the defendant is a sea captain, commanding a small schooner trading from this port to some of the Southern States. It appeared from the evidence of Mr and Mrs James, with whom the plaintiff resided, that the parties are both from the same town in New England. Every time the defendant came to the city from a voyage, he was steady and constant in his visits and attentions to the plaintiff, commencing from the year 1839. The intimacy between them was kept up for five years, and was suddenly brought to a close by the plaintiff hearing of the defendant's marriage in a Southern port. Some letters from the defendant were introduced, and read to the jury, from the tenor of which a promise to marry, or at least a strong intention of so doing was clearly made out. The defendant moved a nonsuit on technical grounds which was overruled, and he proceeded to call John D Cox as a witness. This was objected to as he was bail for the defendant, and he was rejected. Having no other evidence the case was given to the jury under the charge of the Court, and they returned a verdict for the plaintiff, for $5000.