Banks v. United States

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff is a resident of Hartford, Connecticut. She was bom August 14, 1885. While living on Main Street in Hartford in 1937 she became acquainted with Edward J. Alexander, born June 30, 1909, a musician who was estranged from his wife and was rooming alone at 12 Canton Street in a house whose backyard adjoined that of plaintiff. He was accustomed to drop in on plaintiff for coffee and sometimes for meals and recipro*535cated by mopping and sweeping stairways and running errands for plaintiff, who supported herself by minding preschool children for working parents.…