Don’t Marry In Haste, Repent At Leisure

Jul 24, 2008

By Patrick.

Law

Wayne Gibbs, of Georgia, has been punished to the tune of $150,000 because he didn’t marry RoseMary Shell after he discovered that she is a vampiric leech.

RoseMary Shell said she moved to Hall County from Florida, leaving behind a high-paying job, to join Wayne Gibbs. She also said that she has suffered emotionally and financially since their break-up in 2007.

Gibbs said he paid off $30,000 of Shell’s debt during their engagement and also took her on trips. When he found out Shell had even more debt, he canceled the wedding. He notified her by leaving a note in their bathroom.

Cruel and crass without a doubt. Gibbs should have confronted Shell like a man rather than running away like a coward. But he also shouldn’t have married her. With that level of debt, the marriage would be on a fast track to failure anyway. But, but, but again, she also was better off not married to Gibbs, who (duh!!!) didn’t love her after discovering that she was a vampiric leech.

Presumably the jury would have preferred Gibbs to have married Shell, then separated and initiated divorce proceedings the next day, before they could accumulate marital assets, property, and debts.

Whatever the wrongs and the rights, God will balance it all out in the end.

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16 Comments

Marriage

15 Comments

Ken • Jul 24, 2008 @3:48 pm

Pop Quiz: who can tell me the absolutely essential-to-the-story fact left out of the story about the verdict?

Hint: ow-hay any-may omen-way on the ury-jay?
Stephen • Jul 24, 2008 @5:55 pm

You can’t really get money for being dumped, can you? Is there anywhere he can appeal this?? I don’t care how mean he was in doing it, the award seems wrong.

And does anyone think a deadbeat guy would get the same award in a case where a woman dumped him? Or would he be prosecuted for scamming the woman?
Grandy • Jul 24, 2008 @7:40 pm

What about cash for rejections? Is that a go?
Bob • Jul 24, 2008 @7:56 pm

I don’t get it. What law or contract did he break? WTF?
dbt1949 • Jul 24, 2008 @7:57 pm

“That’s the night the lights went out in Georgia”.
Bob • Jul 24, 2008 @7:57 pm

Hopefully, future her future wooers are smart enough to google her.
LPR • Jul 25, 2008 @1:33 pm

WTF? I sure hope he wins his appeal but it is still better than being married to this gold digger.
kilo • Jul 25, 2008 @7:50 pm

Great…now I’ll be sued for not giving the gals a great time like a I promised..lol
MN • Jul 26, 2008 @4:59 am

* She chose to give up her career for a man who was known to be flighty about commitment.
* He did more than most men would do in giving her a check upon the breakup. While I would have been insulted at being treated like a prostitute and not cashed it, she went ahead and didn’t cash it, but acted like more of a prostitute by suing him for breach of contract.
* When will people stop abusing the judicial system?

The fact is, an engagement is not legally binding. People break off engagements all the time, and they have every right to do so if they decide that getting married will be a mistake. This woman should be glad that he realized getting married was a mistake before the wedding and was honest enough to call it off.

Had she called off the engagement, he would never have been able to sue for breach of contract for the simple reason that he is a man. The attitude toward the issue would have been a complete polar opposite.

Yeah, it’s sad that she gave up her career and moved based on a promise of marriage, but ultimately, she made the decision of her own free will to do so. What she did was desperate, opportunistic, and really, sort of disgusting. That a judge even took this seriously and didn’t throw out the case makes me lose even more faith in the judicial system.
Matt • Jul 26, 2008 @10:32 pm

MN, you’re an idiot.

The judge entertained this case because it is the LAW. If you’d ever opened up a book in your life you’d know about the law of quasi-contract and detrimental reliance.
Patrick • Jul 27, 2008 @5:56 am

Matt I wouldn’t expect most laypeople to know about the law of quasi-contract and detrimental reliance whether they’ve read books or not.

What do you read for edification and enjoyment? It must be pretty boring, whatever it is.
Hermen • Jul 27, 2008 @1:54 pm

Wow! So if I don’t last long enough during….., ummm…, can my girll friends sue me too? I mean– they had to get ready for the occasion, take the bus to get to my place, spend money on that new dress..

What’s this world coming too ?
MN • Jul 30, 2008 @3:45 am

Matt, if you had a clue you would know what a frivolous lawsuit is rather than justifying them because some woman wanted her debt paid off and her sugar daddy got smart and left her before she could bleed him a little more. Just because it’s in a law book doesn’t mean that the judge should have ruled in her favor.
Ellen • Jul 30, 2008 @6:33 pm

I think this whole thing is stupid, but that isn’t what qets my goat.
This is my home town and I pay taxes here just like anyone else.
Yes she will pay her laywer and he will pay his, who do you think will pay the Judge and the jurors? as well as the electric bill, gas bill, water bill and so forth in the court house while this trial was going on? Well duh!!!!! we tax payers will. Use our money better than this. This case is on the stupid side. This woman is just wanting money and didn’t she live in Gainesville at one time before? There is so much that I don’t think we are hearing. I say You Go Mr, Gibbs counter sue since we are on this track might as well finish it.
Come on Judge stop these things before they get to a jury.
James • Aug 17, 2008 @6:09 am

OMG!!! I could not believe this story when I saw the headline. Our legal system is d@mn near a joke. For a judge to even allow something like this to enter the courtroom is ridiculous!

I saw where this lady is now attempting to sell the engagement ring on AJC Classifieds…advertising it as a part of a landmark legal case.

It’s good to know that the residents of Hall County are getting a good return on their tax dollars.

Wake up GA!!!! Wake up America!!!!! This case illustrates the drastic deterioration of our legal system.