Jackson v. Means

The defendant in error J. S. Means owned a certain lot in an addition to the city of Dallas. He executed a power of attorney to Nathan Powell to sell and convey it for any sum of money or other consideration and on such terms as to Powell might seem most to Means’ advantage, and to receive the consideration for which the lot might be sold, and to execute proper receipts, releases, and acquittances, and to execute to the purchaser a deed, giving to said Powell other general powers customary to he given in a general power of attorney. The substance of this power of attorney is embraced in the…