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CROSBY v. LOUDOUN NATIONAL BANK OF LEESBURG

Nos. 7197-7200.

235 F.2d 540 (1956)

Agnes Dale CROSBY, Appellant, v. The LOUDOUN NATIONAL BANK OF LEESBURG, and The National Bank of Fairfax, Appellees. Agnes Dale CROSBY, Appellant, v. The LOUDOUN NATIONAL BANK OF LEESBURG, Appellee. Agnes Dale CROSBY, Appellant, v. The PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK OF LEESBURG, Appellee. Agnes Dale CROSBY, Appellant, v. The PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK OF LEESBURG, and J. S. Buck, and Edward Beans and Henry Thompson, d/b/a Beans & Thompson, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 13, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Dorsey, Washington, D. C. (F. Sheild McCandlish, Fairfax, Va., and Blum, Lindsey & Powell, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellant.

Armistead L. Boothe, Alexandria, Va., and J. Sloan Kuykendall, Winchester, Va. (Stilson H. Hall, Wilbur C. Hall, Leesburg, Va., and H. Wise Kelly, Jr., Fairfax, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before SOPER and PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judges, and TIMMERMAN, District Judge.

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

In 1939 Mrs. Agnes Dale Crosby entered upon a cattle-raising venture on a farm she had acquired in Fairfax County, Virginia. Being inexperienced in the matter she employed a manager, one James M. King. On February 1, 1941, she gave King a written power of attorney, which constituted him her attorney and agent and empowered him:

"(1) To manage and operate my farms in Broad Run District in Loudoun County, Virginia, lying on the Potomac...

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