Sitarek v. Montgomery

During the month of January, 1947, the defendant Audrey F. Montgomery (a divorcee), with her three young children, was living in a house on the south side of Kenyon Place southwest in the city of Seattle. Mrs. Montgomery was employed as a cashier in a clothing store. Across the street, and a little to the east, the defendants Leroy and Martha Ladely resided with their six-year-old son. Mrs. Polia Sitarek, a widow, with her fourteen-year-old daughter, Lucy, resided on the north side of Ken-' yon Place, two or three houses west of the Ladely home.

Mrs. Montgomery was well acquainted with one…