Machebeuf v. Clements
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to District Court, Arapahoe County. Alfred H. Clements filed Ms bill in the district court of Arapahoe county against Joseph P. Machebeuf and twenty-two others, alleging that he owned a certain tract of land, embracing many blocks and lots, in the city of Denver.
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Error to District Court, Arapahoe County. Alfred H. Clements filed Ms bill in the district court of Arapahoe county against Joseph P. Machebeuf and twenty-two others, alleging that he owned a certain tract of land, embracing many blocks and lots, in the city of Denver. That in the years 1864 and 1865, one James Hall, pretending to act as the attorney in fact of the complainant, conveyed by deed of general warranty, some of the said lots and blocks to the said Machebeuf and others to the other defendants respectively. That all of the said deeds were made without any authority whatever, and…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
The plaintiffs in error have assigned for error *39only the final decree given in the district court, and we have therefore omitted all consideration of the sufficiency of complainant’s bill, and the regularity of the proceedings anterior to the decree.
In view of the conclusion to which we have arrived upon another point in the case, it will be unnecessary to consider whether the conveyances sought to be impeached by the bill can be referred to the letter of attorney of June 17,1864. I therefore proceed to the question whether they can be sustained, as executed under the letter of attorney of…
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