Stokes v. Whidden

In proceedings brought by the guardian of an insane person to enforce the payment of a purchase money mortgage, it appears that the insane person acquired and with his family lived on the locus in quo as his homestead. Subsequently he was adjudged insane and committed to the State Hospital for the insane. His wife was appointed his guardian and as such guardian undertook to sell and convey the homestead property, taking a purchase money mortgage which she sought to foreclose. By answer averring failure to consideration the homestead character of the property is shown and the ineffectiveness…