Reid v. Hart
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Sebastian Circuit Court. Hon. R. B. Rutherford, Circuit Judge. It signifies nothing that Featherstone’s deed to his wife was void, for under his contract and power of attorney he acquired general rights, as against his clients at least, after he had commenced suit and gone to expense, which they did not have the power to deprive him of.
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APPEAL from Sebastian Circuit Court. Hon. R. B. Rutherford, Circuit Judge. It signifies nothing that Featherstone’s deed to his wife was void, for under his contract and power of attorney he acquired general rights, as against his clients at least, after he had commenced suit and gone to expense, which they did not have the power to deprive him of. He certainly had a right to prosecute the suit in their name to recover, if Hart had no title, which they could not deprive him of by a sale. The power was coupled with an inteftst and could not be revoked. The contract was a transfer of the lands…
1Opinion of the CourtEakin, J.
J. C. and Julia Reed, heirs of Reuben Reed, who died seized, in 1865, sued Hart in ejectment, on the 9th of August, 1882, to recover a forty-acre tract of land in Scott county.
Hart answered, denying the right of Plaintiffs, or that he unlawfully held possession. He pleaded the Statute of Limitations, of seven years, and set up .title in himself, by virtue of a deed from Jacob C. Moles as guardian of Plaintiffs, executed in 1872, and exhibited with the answer. It recites that Moles, of Arkadelphia, in Clark county, as guardian of Plaintiffs, by order of the Probate Court of Scott county, on…
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