Rawlings v. Lewis

The appellee, Etta M. Lewis, brought suit against J. D. Rawlings and D. E. Powel, to cancel four certain deeds,, executed by R, E. Stalcup, as substitute trustee, to the four quarters of a section of land in Dallam county, alleging substantially that the deeds were executed without the power to do so, and that Stalcup was not, under the deed of trust, properly substituted for the trustee. The trial court, after the evidence was in, instructed a verdict for the appellee, plaintiff below, on the ground that Stalcup had no authority to execute the deeds to Powel, as substitute trustee. The jury,…