Burgett v. Barrick’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““The district court defined the language 'capable of contracting’ to mean ‘legally capable of contracting;’ and further charged the jury that this ‘occurs, either when the party has reached the age of majority, or when, being a minor, he has been vested with the legal capacity of adults by an act of the legislature, or by a judgment of a court in a proper case.’ Counsel for the plaintiff contends that the direction of the court was erroneous, and that the statute makes ‘his having engaged in business as an adult’ a ‘good reason’ for capacity to contract; in short, that the words ‘capable of contracting,’ as used in the statute, mean mentally and physically capable of contracting, rather than legally capable of contracting. We disagree with this interpreta tion, and adopt the exposition of the statute given by the learned trial judge to the jury.” (p. 530.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McClure v. Irwin