In re Letters of Guardianship of the Person & Property of Thorne

Young, J.:

Joel Wolfe Thorne and Mary Casey were married in New York county on November 1, 1911. A child was born in New York county October 16, 1914. This child remained with his mother until August 24, 1918, when the mother states that he was taken from her by stealth at the instigation of the father and placed in the custody of a woman unrelated to the family in Denver, Col., and that she did not know where the child was from this time until his father’s death in May, 1924.

In June, 1919, Mary Casey Thorne began an action in the Supreme Court, New York county, against her husband, Joel Wolfe…