Baird v. Baird

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

Suit in equity seeking restitution for advancements made by one spouse to the other.

Mrs. Emma Byberg, 41, an unattached widow, boarded a passenger coach at Yakima, Washington, at about 4:00 o’clock on the morning of December 10, 1947, enroute to her home at Bismarck, North Dakota. She first seated herself beside a man occupying a seat immediately behind one wherein sat Harold Baird, 37, single, who was enroute from Seattle to his home in Missoula. After a while the passenger with whom Mrs. Byberg was sitting went out of the coach whereupon Mrs. Byberg struck up a…