134 Mich. App. 391 - Howard v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “[T]he person in question possesses sufficient mind to understand, in a reason^ able manner, the nature and effect of the act in which he is engaged. However, to avoid a contract it must appear not only that the person was of unsound mind or insane when it was made, but that the unsoundness or insanity was of such á character- that he had no reasonable perception of the nature or terms of the contract.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rowan Ex Rel. Rowan v. Brookdale Senior Living Communities, Inc.