Iredell v. Iredell

Jonathan Iredell had a wife, Thelma, and three children, from whom he had been separated for many years. In August, 1952, he and Olive Hilliard came to Seattle and “began a meretricious relationship of husband and wife, which was known by them to be such.” A year later (August, 1953), Thelma Iredell brought an action against her husband in the King county superior court, under the uniform reciprocal enforcement of support act (Laws of 1951, chapter 196, p. 584 [cf. RCW 26.21]), and, since September of that year, he has paid her $125 a month for support of their children. On April 23, 1954,…