The society sensation of the week has been the action for breach of promise of marriage brought by Mrs. Ather-ton against Captain the Hon, John Yarde-Buller, heir to Lord Churston. It may be remembered that Mrs. Atherston, who is a daughter of the late Sir John Dene Paul, Bt., was recently divorced by her husband, the ce-respondent being Captain Yarde-Buller. There was a curious point of law involved in the case, inasmuch as it was admitted that the promise on which the plaintiff relied was made before the decree nisi was made absolute, al fr
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