Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1903 — PARENTS NOT LIABLE FOR DAMAGES. [ARTICLE]

PARENTS NOT LIABLE FOR DAMAGES.

The Appellate Court has just decided that when parents interfere with a marriage and cause their son to break his promise they can’t be held for damages, and also that parents have a perfect right to advise a child whether or not he or she shall enter into a marriage contract. It was a novel point of law which it is said has never been determined in any Court before. The case was that of Della Leonard against John Whetstone and wife. The complainant charged that her sweetheart’s patents notified the County Clerk that he was too young to obtain a license legally, that they threatened to disinherit him and gave him money to break with her. She asked for damages and was awarded SSOO in the lower Court, but the sum was not paid, as the property was in the name of the parents. Judge Henley wrote the opinion. An armload of old papers for a nickel.*! The Democrat office.