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Show h oo H "SYMPATHETIC VERDICTS" ' H , NEW YORK, Fob. 28. Henrietta H I French, a South Dakota girl, was H awarded $10,000 verdict by a Jury in H the supreme court here today, for the HL alleged breach of David P. Decker Jr. 'a Hr I promise to marry her. Decker is a 'wealthy' touiik. civil onffincer of this city On. "motion of piiarounsoi that tho ordlct2bfc'ct neldo. JuAifco Er-lauser Er-lauser declared thai ;tl appeared to bo "a "sympathetic .verdict,"-without jiistificaUon. - . 'm r - "I will take briofs on 'the question of ,i reduotion of the verdict, which I regard re-gard as entirely disproportionate," ho said. |