Hunt v. Ennis
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island
This is a bill in equity [by Clement S. Hunt against William Ennis and others, administrators of Louis Rousmaniere) set down for a hearing upon demurrer.
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This is a bill in equity [by Clement S. Hunt against William Ennis and others, administrators of Louis Rousmaniere) set down for a hearing upon demurrer. The bill charges, that the plaintiff, on the 11th of January, 1820, agreed to lend to Louis Rous-maniere, (the respondent’s intestate) the sum of $1,450, upon a proposal of the intestate to give the plaintiff as security for re-payment, a bill of sale of the intestate’s interest in the brig Marcus, then on a voyage at sea, which sum the plaintiff accordingly lent to the intestate, and took two notes of the intestate, dated the 11th of…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
The first question is, whether the letters of attorney in this case are powers coupled with' an interest, or only personal authorities, which expired with the intestate. If the former, they •undoubtedly survived, and may be now executed by the plaintiff, for nothing is better settled, than that powers coupled with an interest, are not limited for their execution to the life of the author. I observe, that in the bill these letters are described as irrevocable powers of attorney; and though not so expressed in terms on the face of the papers, they may justly be so…
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