Reynolds v. Stille

This suit was instituted to recover certain tracts of land in the possession of defendant, and claimed by him as owner.

It was necessary, under the pleadings, for plaintiff to prove title in himself, and in order to do so, he had to prove the authority of an attorney in fact, who had made a conveyance of the lands, for two former proprietors, from whom he derived his alleged title. And for the purpose of proving such authority in the agent, he offered in evidence, two certified copies of acts of procuration which had been recorded in this State, on the oath of one of the subscribing witnesses.

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