Cox

The complaint alleges that on or about the second day of January, 1906, plaintiff executed a certain written instrument, which is set forth in the complaint and which is designated, and in fact is, a power of attorney. Therein the defendant, A. S. Hughes, was authorized, among other things, “to fill in, execute or complete, any sale or assignment of wages or salary, claim or demand now due or to become due me from any future employer, person, firm or corporation, to the extent of my indebtedness to the said Star Loan Company, which said sale or assignment may date from the time of my said new employment, in case I should engage my services to other than my present employer; to execute, alter, change, fill in or complete, any form as he may see fit, any contract, sale or assignment of wages, drafts, orders, bills of exchange, executed by me to, with or for the Star Loan Company to which I am indebted, upon any person, firm or corporation, in whose service I now am or shall at any time be engaged for any amount that I shall at any time be indebted to the said Star Loan Company. ... It being distinctly understood and agreed that this power of attorney shall be irrevocable, the same…