Williams v. Williams

This is an appeal by defendants from a decree annulling the judgment which awarded the defendant Frank D. Williams a divorce from this plaintiff.

Several years prior to the seventeenth day of February, 1913, Annabel Williams and Frank D. Williams were married and had been living in Oakland. On the date last mentioned they were occupying a house, 1561 Eighth Street. At that time the defendant Katherine Specula was residing with them as a member of their household. A short time previous to that date Mrs. Williams became afflicted with some sickness and she seems to have been in a very debilitated state of health. While in that condition of health her husband filed a complaint charging her with being an insane person. A hearing was had and on the seventeenth day of February, 1913, she was adjudged an insane person and was committed to the state hospital at Agnews and her husband was appointed guardian of her person and estate. She remained an inmate of the state hospital until December, 1915, when two of her sisters came to California and while they were here the plaintiff was taken out of the .asylum temporarily. A little later the husband consented that the plaintiff might…