Barlow v. Strange
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Holden. Washington superior court. August 11/1903. cited, as to mental incapacity to contract, G-a. R. 6/350 ; 31/513, 528; 44/638 (5); 48/193 (7); 77/724, 730; 5 Lawson’s Rights, Rem. & Prac. 3981; 40 Ill. 188; 84 Ill. 371; 26 Wend. 255; 52 Me. 305 (83 Am. D. 514); 1 B. Monroe, 290.
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
L. S. Strange, as next friend for Mrs. W. 0.'Strange, James B. Strange, and Belle Strange, brought suit against A. W. Barlow, alleging in the petition that the three plaintiffs for whose benefit the suit was brought were the owners of a tract of land, and that each of them was mentally incapacitated to manage the land or to make any contract concerning the same; that Joiner, acting as the agent of the plaintiffs, leased the land'to the defendant for a period of twenty years, the lease to expire on December 31, 1917, for an annual rental of 2,500 pounds of lint-cotton; that Joiner was the…
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