Court Opinion

ID: 9442378
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 18:45:39.183081+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:04.908373
License: Public Domain

GOODRICH, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I go along with the result because I think it is supported by authority 'and the subject is not one on which to try to start a revolution. But it seems to me that the whole thing is incongruous. A man has said, in effect, that he gives another the power to do everything for him. Then he enumerates certain specific things which the other may do, carefully saying, however, that he does not mean to alter the general power by stating specific powers. Then he ends up by saying that he means his language to be as broad as he stated it. Yet the rule seems to be that 'he is held to mean something much less than indicated by the language he used. Perhaps the law cannot quite say that white is black. But in this instance it certainly can make white look a pretty dark grey.