Sturdevant v. Pike

Perkins, J. —

Bill in chancery by. certain of the heirs, (some of whom are yet infants,) of Col. Zebulon Pike, deceased, against Anderson F. Gage, and others, heirs of said Pike. Gage is the only interested defendant, the others being merely formal ones. The bill charges that, on the 4th of October, 1827, the said Col. Pike, then being the owner of a tract of land containing 750 acres, and. lying in Delaware county, Ohio, executed to said Anderson F. Gage, his son-in-law, a power of attorney to sell the same; that Gage, under said power, sold, during the fall of that year, to different…