Morton v. Morris

NEILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by the appellee, Nannie Morris, against the appellant, W. T. Morton, to cancel a certain alleged pretended deed purported to have been made by appellee, by her attorney in fact under a power therein given by her to him. The grounds upon which the cancellation was prayed for are (1) that the deed, upon its face shows, that the agent exceeded the scope of the authority conferred on him by the power of attorney; (2) that the deed was fraudulently made in pursuance of a conspiracy between her agent and the appellant to deprive her of her property;…