Lackey v. Lackey

Judge Simpson

delivered the opinion of the Court. — Judge Breck did not sit in this ease.

As persons non compos mentis are not within the operation of the statute of limitations, the plaintiff in error is not barred in the prosecution‘of his writ of error in this case, to the proceedings in 1841, by which he was adjudged to be of unsound mind, and his estate placed under the control of a committee. Persons of non-sane mind are allowed two years next after the removal of their disability, to prosecute a writ of error, notwithstanding three years may have elapsed after the judgment or final…