McQuade v. Springfield Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the absence of attorney’s signature does not invalidate a power of attorney
• “The rule of construction that a power of attorney must be strictly interpreted does not go to the extent of destroying the purpose of the power”
• in interpreting power of attorney contract, the court “must put [itself] in the place of the parties to the instrument and give its words their plain and ordinary meaning in the light of the circumstances and in view of the subject matter”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).