Bassett v. Federal Land Bank of Columbia

In this case the appellee exhibited its bill of complaint to foreclose mortgage against the appellant. The appellant at the time was insane. The record shows that’appellant was adjudged insane under the laws of the State of Florida in the County Judge’s Court, Gadsden County, the 10th day of April, 1922. The notes and mortgage involved were executed on the 26th day Of August, 1922.

It was sought to defeat the foreclosure by. a plea that Robert H. M. Bassett, who executed the mortgage, was insane at the time he executed the mortgage, and that the contract was therefore void and unenforcible. By…