Duffee v. Bankers' Surety Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 220, Oct. T., 1914, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. No. 4, Allegheny Co., First T., 1912, No. 166, on verdict for defendant in case of L. W. Duffee, for use of E. R. Cluley v. Bankers’ Surety Company and Mary Engel.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
The narrow question involved in this appeal is whether an agent exceeded his authority under a written power of attorney. It could have been stated in two lines, but, instead of being so stated, twenty-nine lines, covering three-fourths of a page, are devoted to it, in the face of rule 34, which declares: “The statement of the question involved is designed to enable the court to obtain an immediate view of the nature of the controversy. It must state the question or questions in the briefest and most general terms, without names, dates, amounts or particulars of…
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