Curtis v. Brownell

Complainants filed this bill.to set aside a mortgage executed by their deceased father, Byron Curtis, to defendant for $1600, dated November 9, 1875, and covering a farm of 160 acres in Shelby, Ma-comb county.

The mortgage is attacked on the ground that the mortgagor was insane when it was executed. It was given to secure the price of a' set of mill machinery bought at that time of defendant, on which $200 deduction was to be made if paid within sixty days.

The court below granted the prayer of the bill, and defendant appealed.

The arguments of counsel dwell at some length on the rules of law…