Woman sued $ 16 000 from a marriage agency for under-wealthy suitors
'17.08.2018'
Source: Medialeaks
Teresa Burke, a divorced mother of two daughters, signed a contract with a popular marriage agency that was supposed to find a husband for her. The company failed to satisfy the demands of an 49-year-old woman, and she filed a lawsuit.
The problem is that Miss Burke had very high requests. A man had to marry her, love his daughters and at the same time be truly rich, writes Medialeaks.
A resident of London named Theresa Burke won the court at the marriage agency Seventy Thirty. She received compensation in the amount of 12 600 pounds (16 thousand US dollars) for the fact that the company could not satisfy her request in accordance with the concluded agreement.
It would be a normal court due to an unfulfilled contract, if not for the contract itself and the requests that Teresa addressed to matchmakers.
The contract with Seventy Thirty Miss Burke concluded in 2014 year. The woman paid a large amount (she was not disclosed) for the services of the agency, which, in turn, pledged to find acceptable options for it.
For several years, employees of the company could not find someone with whom Miss Burke would have agreed to at least try to arrange a marriage life. As a result, the woman went to court. According to the British, the managing director of the company misled her by stating that there are seven thousand actively seeking men on the agency’s lists. In fact, the list of potential candidates, established by the court, was exhausted by a hundred names.
Judge Richard Parks, who ruled in favor of the plaintiff, described the situation as follows:
Gertrude Stein once said: "The one who came up with the expression" happiness cannot be bought "simply did not know where to shop." In our case, the case concerns a woman who was looking for romantic happiness, but she was tricked into shopping in the wrong place. She paid a lot of money, but the agency limited itself to promises instead of goods.
However, the opposite side insisted that the demands of Miss Burke were simply impossible. A woman was looking for a man of about her own age who would agree to become a father for her two teenage daughters, while owning at least three private houses and was rich.
There were no such claimants for the hand and heart of Miss Burke for three years, which she communicated with the agency.
The court considered that the agency was guilty after all, which, not being able to find the groom and knowing this in advance, nevertheless did not refuse to conclude an agreement. The judge decided to return the money spent in search of the groom to the woman and threw compensation from above.
