Harrington v. County of Ramsey

How courts have described this case

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• holding that insanity is substantial inability to understand one’s legal rights, manage one’s affairs, and prosecute one’s claim
• “[T]he retention of counsel is evidence, although not conclusive, of a person’s sanity or legal capacity for the purpose of the running of the statute of limitations.”
• insanity means “substantial inability, by reason of mental defect or deficiency, to understand one’s legal rights, manage one’s affairs, and prosecute the claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).