Chapman v. Burks

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the term “insane person” and the term “mentally incompetent person” mean the same thing
• explaining that the term “insane person” and the term “mentally incompetent person” mean the same thing
• “The test for mental incapacity is not whether . . . one has merely managed his affairs unsuccessfully or badly.”
• “we do not discount the effect which physical disability may have on mental capacity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).