Lankford v. Tombari

This is an appeal from a fifteen-thousand-dollar judgment for plaintiff in a suit based on two causes of action, one for alienation of affections, the other for criminal conversation.

Respondent married his wife, Charlotte, in 1938. She bore him two children and was a good wife and mother. In May, 1944, he moved his family to a home on Marshall street in Spokane and the following month entered the navy.

In February, 1945, she moved to a house on Mission street, where she and the children lived with her sister’s mother-in-law and her sister’s two children. The Mission street residence was fifty…