Ward v. Stallworth

FOSTER, Justice.

The main question argued in this case relates to the legal effect of the conveyance by a person residing in Florida of her real property situated in Alabama, when she had been declared by the Florida court to be insane, and an ancillary guardian appointed in Alabama; but at the time of the conveyance, the Florida cdurt having jurisdiction had decreed that she was restored to sanity, but the Alabama guardianship had not been discharged, assuming that she was in fact incompetent to transact that sort of business some three months after the Florida decree.

The contention seemed to…