G. W. Sentell & Co. v. Kennedy

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marr, J.

G. W. Sentell & Co. were factors and commission merchants, *680■of New Orleans, and Mrs. Mattie Gilmer, now wife of P. J. Kennedy, lately widow of P. V. O’Neill, owned certain plantations in Bossier parish, where she resided.

O’Neill died in the fall of 1870; and his widow was the administratrix of his succession. On the first of December, 1870, she executed a writing, recorded in the office of the parish recorder of Bossier on the nineteenth of December, 1870, by which she appointed Samuel W. Yance, of the same parish, her agent, with large powers,…