Cannon v. Boutwell
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Hunt. Tried below before the Hon. Green J. Clark. A number of propositions were argued by counsel not necessary in view of the opinion to notice, nor would a full statement of the case make the opinion clearer.
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Associate Justice.
Appellant’s title to the land sued for depended on the validity of a power of attorney, executed and privily acknowledged by Mary C. Fisher, in October, 1856, authorizing her husband, George Fisher, to sell and convey, for her benefit, the land now in controversy, being her separate property, and upon a conveyance of said land by George Fisher, acting for himself, and for his wife under said power of attorney, made February 5, 1858.
The district court held these instruments insufficient to divest the wife’s title; and in our opinion the court did not err in so ruling.
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2Cases cited2 opinions
- Fowler v. ShearerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1810
- Baxter v. BodkinIndiana Supreme Court · 1865
3Cited by19 opinions
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- Merriman v. BlalackCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1909
- Mexia v. OliverSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
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