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 case involved Bruce Johnson and Caroline Settino ... A trial judge initially concluded Settino was entitled to keep the engagement ring, reasoning that Johnson “mistakenly thought Settino was cheating on him and called off the engagement.”

The ruling went against a decades long tradition seeing engagement rings as a 'conditional gift' after the wealthy fiance found the school teacher was messaging another man who was calling her 'cupcak