Davidson v. Baker-Vander Veen Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “We are not prepared to say that ability to retain a lawyer is conclusive evidence of mental competence for the purposes of this tolling provision.”
• “Although [plaintiff] was able to work regularly for various employers over a period of years and was able to perform sufficiently well to earn good wages, it does not inevitably follow that he is not insane.”
• “[E]ven if there is no dispute concerning the underlying historical facts, it is ordinarily for the trier of fact to decide a question requiring an appraisal of the reasonableness or quality of a person’s behavior or actions____”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).