Fletcher v. Mathew

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• finding no reasonable defense where defendant defrauded elderly client into transferring assets to his name despite court’s having to resolve a disputed legal question
• finding no reasonable defense where defendant defrauded elderly client into transferring assets to his name despite court's having to resolve a disputed legal question
• finding no reasonable defense where defendant defrauded elderly client into transferring assets to his name despite court's having to resolve a disputed legal question
• adopting rule that power to make any gift must be expressly granted in power of attorney instrument itself; oral authoriza- tion to gift is ineffective
• attorney in fact transferred funds from principal’s certificates of deposit to accounts in both principal’s name and attorney in fact’s name and into accounts solely in attorney in fact’s name based on principal’s purported oral authorization
• power of attorney creates an agency relationship

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