Styles v. Gray

The record is so very defective, and leaves it so uncertain as to what defenses had been ruled out on the exceptions of the appellee, that we cannot notice any supposed error that may have been committed by the court in relation to such rulings. There is nothing that we can examine but such questions as have been presented by the several bills of exception, the charges of the court, and the statement of facts.

The first bill of exceptions shows that “the defendant offered the book of “records of the county clerk’s office to show an outstanding title to said land, “defendant admitting at the…