Stephens v. Herron

GAINES, Chief Justice.

The Court of Civil Appeals for the Second Supreme Judicial District have certified for our decision the following questions:

“In this case, which was tried before the court without a jury, resulting in a judgment for appellee, and which is now pending before us on appeal, error is assigned to the action of the trial court in excluding from the evidence a deed executed by E. Lucien Richie as attorney in fact for J. A. Trumbull and his wife, Mary H. Trumbull, to Jane Dun-ham, conveying the lands in controversy. The date of this deed was October 26, 1877, and it was made…