Boone v. Equitable Holding Co.

McCLINTIC, District Judge.

This case was heard on an appeal by both plaintiffs and defendants from a Special Master’s finding that J. A. Boone was competent to transact business up to January 1, 1929, but was so affected by senile dementia that he was incompetent to protect his interests from that date until his death.

J. A. Boone died in the Weston State Hospital for the insane of senile dementia in May, 1935, having been admitted there in June, 1933. The present plaintiffs are his two sons, John A. and William Boone. Mrs. Tola Boone, his wife, one of the original plaintiffs, died in 1936.

They…