Hudson v. Union & Mercantile Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Jackson Chancery Court; George T. Humphries, Chancellor; The decree was rendered upon the cross-complaint of E. G-. Thompson 'and no answer to this cross-complaint was ever filed by a guardian or guardian ad litem of Ada Sims, a person of unsound mind. This was reversible error. 104 Ark. 193; 105 Id. 11. Mrs Sims was insane and was not bound for the purchase price of the lands.
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Appeal from Jackson Chancery Court; George T. Humphries, Chancellor; The decree was rendered upon the cross-complaint of E. G-. Thompson 'and no answer to this cross-complaint was ever filed by a guardian or guardian ad litem of Ada Sims, a person of unsound mind. This was reversible error. 104 Ark. 193; 105 Id. 11. Mrs Sims was insane and was not bound for the purchase price of the lands. She should be allowed to recover her lands or the purchase price with interest, less the amount of the lien at the time the deed of trust then was executed to Thompson. 1. The appeal was not perfected in…
1Opinion of the CourtHumpheeys, J.
This is an appeal by Ursel Hudson, as next friend for Ada Sims, from a decree rendered in the Jackson Chancery Court on November 2,1915, against Ada Sims, in a suit brought in said court by Y. G. Richardson, as guardian for the person and estate of the said Ada Sims, a person of unsound mind, against the appel-lees. Y. G. Richardson, Ada Sims’ regular guardian, died May 13, 1918. The prayer for appeal was filed January 11, 1921. The suit was to set aside a mortgage given by Ada Sims, widow, on the 23d day of February, 1914, to E. G. Thompson, agent, and Wm. N. Dunaway, trustee, on 200 acres…
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