The Federal Land Bank of St. Louis v. Lewis

This suit was brought by the Federal Land Bank of St. Louis, to foreclose a mortgage executed to it by J. F. Lewis, now deceased, and his wife Sarah who is now confined in the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases under an adjudication by the probate court of the county of her residence that she was insane.

A portion of the land mortgaged was owned by Lewis and his wife as tenants by the entirety, the balance was owned by Lewis personally.

The suit was defended upon the ground that Mrs. Lewis was insane when she executed the mortgage, and the court below found the fact to be that she was insane…