Zetelle v. Myers
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the Circuit court of the city of Richmond, brought in February 1867, by Spiro Zetelle, against Gustavus A. Myers and Frederic J. Cridland, seeking to hold them responsible for the purchase money of a house and lot in the city of •Richmond, sold by them under a deed of trust from Zetelle and wife to Myers and Cridland.
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This was a suit in equity in the Circuit court of the city of Richmond, brought in February 1867, by Spiro Zetelle, against Gustavus A. Myers and Frederic J. Cridland, seeking to hold them responsible for the purchase money of a house and lot in the city of •Richmond, sold by them under a deed of trust from Zetelle and wife to Myers and Cridland. The circuit court dismissed the bill, and Zetelle obtained an appeal to this court. s'The cause was very fully argued on the merits by Roberts, Macfarland and Wise, for the appellant, and by Jones, Conway Robinson and Andrew Johnston, for the…
1Opinion of the CourtJoynes, J.
On the 9th day of September 1861, Spiro Zetelle, then a resident of Richmond, being about to go to Europe, to remain there for an indefinite time, executed a power of attorney by which he constituted Gustavus A. Myers and Frederic J. Cridland his agents and attorneys in fact. The powers conferred by this instrument were of the most ample ..character. Besides the enumeration of many particular powers, there is this general clause, “to do, transact, execute, and perform, all prop.er, legal, equitable, needful, and requisite acts, matters, and things, relative to my affairs, business, and…
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