Davis v. Davis

PRESENT: All the Justices RAE LEE DAVIS OPINION BY v. Record No. 181192 JUSTICE S. BERNARD GOODWYN December 5, 2019 J. GARNETT DAVIS, JR., ET AL. FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF WYTHE COUNTY Josiah T. Showalter, Jr., Judge In this appeal, we consider whether a power of attorney document provided an attorney- in-fact with the authority to gift a principal’s real and personal property. I. BACKGROUND Samuel Dickey Davis (Dickey) trained horses for most of his life at his family’s farm in Wytheville, Virginia. In 1993, when he was in his late forties, Dickey suffered an accident that left him a…