Clark v. Graham

This is an action of ejectment brought in the Circuit Court for the District of Ohio. At the trial, the plaintiff proved a title sufficient in law, prima fade, to maintain the action. The controversy turned altogether upon the title set up by the defendants. That title was as follows: A letter of attorney, purporting to be executed by John Graham, bearing date the 23d of September, 1805, authorizing Nathaniel Massie to sell all his éstate, &c. in all his lands in Ohio. This power, was executed in the presence of two witnesses in Richmond, in Virginia, and was there acknowledged by Graham…