Williams v. Paine
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The appellants herein brought this suit in the Supreme Court of. the District of Columbia for the purpose of obtaining partition of certain lands in the city of Washington, known as square 53 of the ground plan of that city. Upon the trial it appeared that the common source of title was one George W. Peter, who, in January, .1837, conveyed the premises to Henry Huntt and Benjamin Ogle Tayloe as tenants in common.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The appellants herein brought this suit in the Supreme Court of. the District of Columbia for the purpose of obtaining partition of certain lands in the city of Washington, known as square 53 of the ground plan of that city. Upon the trial it appeared that the common source of title was one George W. Peter, who, in January, .1837, conveyed the premises to Henry Huntt and Benjamin Ogle Tayloe as tenants in common. Mr. Huntt died in 1838 intestate, leaving two daughters, Fannie and Mary, and a son named George Gibson Huntt, to whom…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. J ustioe Peckham,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
The questions in this case grow out of the execution of the power of attorney by Lieutenant Ransom and his wife while at Carlisle Barracks; Pennsylvania, in 1859.
It is claimed on the part of appellants, (1) that the power of attorney given by Mrs. Ransom, a married woman, (jointly with her husband,) could not operate as a valid authority to the attorney named therein to convey her real estate, because •a married woman could not convey real estate by a power of attorney ; (2) that the power of attorney was revoked…
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