The ruling marks a departure from a decades-old state rule requiring courts to assess who was responsible for a breakup.

Massachusetts’s highest court reversed a longstanding ruling by saying an engagement ring must be returned to the buyer if the wedding falls through.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a would-be bride, Caroline Settino, must return a $70,000 engagement ring from Tiffany & Co to her former fiancé, Bruce Johnson. This decision concludes a lengthy legal battle about responsibility for the relationship's breakdown.

Massachusetts’ highest court reversed a longstanding ruling, saying an engagement ring must be returned to the buyer if the wedding falls through.

That’s what the highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide with a $70,000 ring at the center of the dispute. The court ultimately ruled Friday that an engagement ring must be returned to the person who purchased it,

The ruling puts a definitive end to a six-decade-old state rule that required judges to try to identify who was to blame for the end of the relationship.

When a Massachusetts man sued his ex-fiancée for a $70,000 engagement ring, the state's Supreme Court ruled that the ring should be returned to the buyer if the marriage is called off.

A Massachusetts woman is out of luck, and a $70,000 ring from her broken engagement, after the state's high court ruled in her ex-fiance's favor. The Washington Post reports that on Friday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided Caroline Settino has to give back the piece of jewelry to Bruce Johnson,