COLOR OF AUTHORITY


That semblance or presumption of authority sustaining the acts of a publlc officer which is derived from hls apparent title to the office or from a writ or other process In his hands apparently valid and regular. State v. oates, 86 wis. 634, 57 N. W. 296, 39 Am. St Rep. 912; wyatt v. Monroe, 27 Tex. 268