Perry v. Fletcher

1. A person who is non compos mentis, feeble-minded, and incapable of handling his properly, or of understanding or completing the simplest business transaction, although he may not have been legally-*451adjudged a lunatic or a person non compos mentis, is incapable of binding his estate by any contract entered into by him, and is incapable of accepting service or defending a lawsuit instituted against him; and where such a person was sued upon what purported to be a contractual obligation entered into by him, and was served only by the leaving of a copy of the petition and process at his…