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Show QTXNSTEB WHO SUED " . , a. e. crocxer dies FEW YORK, March 15. Miss Evelyrt j SU&ker, the vivacious spinster,' who ' attracted considerable notice In 1902, '.'when she sued the bankrupt Alin E. i Crocker for $50,000 for breach of prom- : I m, died yesterday at her home, No. 142 jcast Forty-third street. ' . . ! Miss Stedeker was the first woman In V the legal history of the city to claim ? j breach of promise damages against the '. estate of a petitioner in bankruptcy. 8 he was finally awarded $1500 damages ' after a sensational hearing of her case before Referee in Bankruptcy Wise. '- Her claim was based on her wasted affections, af-fections, a $367 loan to Crocker and the ' value of breakfasts served him on Sun- day mornings for several years. In' ' ) finding Judgment for. -$1500 against , Crocker, who had inherited $50,000 from 1 ' the estate of a relative, Referee Wise v'sald:- "There are certain -zones of human affection as there are zones of climate, . ' and I don't find, in looking over this , i case, that either of the contracting parties par-ties inhabited other than an extremely ' temperate zone of affection for the other. If they did, there is a remark-- remark-- able lack of evidence concerning it.". . |