Home Sick

So Bennett would probably sell the house, which Myrick says he is still interested in acquiring--he doesn't care from whom. Last fall he proposed putting $75,000 in an escrow account, with the money to go to either ADA or Bennett, depending on who won the court case. In the meantime, he suggested, he could get on with fixing up the house. But that suggestion was shot down by ADA, he says.

As for Bennett's sanity, common sense is a sane enough test for him. Why live like Mildred Bennett if you didn't have to? "A mentally competent person would've sold that home," Myrick says, "got some money and found someplace else to live.