Shaw v. Feehan

This action was instituted to set aside and have declared illegal and void two promissory notes, and a trust deed given to secure their payment, on the ground that James F. Fleming, whose name was signed to said notes and deed, had, prior to the date of said notes and deed, by an order and judgment of the superior court of San Benito county, been declared and adjudged to be insane and committed to the state hospital at Agnews, and that he had never been legally discharged therefrom. The facts of the case are undisputed, and show that Fleming was on the twenty-fifth day of August, 1909, by an…