14 Tex. 34 | Tex. | 1855
The facts of this case are peculiar. The County Court of Fort Bend County let out to the lowest bidder, the building of a brick jail, according to a plan and speci
Nothing'to our mind is clearer than that, at the time Chambers, the intestate, bid off the contract, he was laboring under some hallucination that disqualified him from reasoning correctly on the obligations of the contract he had entered into. His remark about wishing to do something for the county, is not at all inconsistent with a disordered intellect. The mind's disease is often made manifest, by the party proposing most magnificent schemes of benevolence ; often imagining that such things arc looked for by the world, and that no other persons possess the means of so much liberality. The contract carries with it evidence of its invalidity. The inadequacy of compensation for which the work was to be done, is so great as at once to shock the moral sense of right in every right minded
Reversed and remanded.