Burnett v. Williams

Mary C. Stoddard, now Mary C. Williams, married Dr. Herbert U. Williams in 1909, and lived with him in Buffalo, New York, until 1922, when she was committed to the Buffalo State Hospital as an insane person. They had no children. On October 18, 1922, her husband was appointed by the Supreme Court of New York a “committee of the person and estate” of his insane wife.

Annie C. Stoddard, the mother of Mary C. Williams, lived in Plymouth. By arrangement with Mrs. Stoddard and her daughter, Ellen J. Stoddard, now Ellen J. Burnett, Dr. Williams permitted his ward to come to Massachusetts in their…