Blake v. Doherty

dissented. The principal difficulties in this case, arise from the equivocal nature of the language in which the bill of exceptions .g eXpressed In that part of it which details the evidence offered, the words are, “ that in 1806, or early in 1807, a corner hiccory, and a white oak, and lines around said tract, as now claimed and represented in said plat, were marked The word marked, may be taken either as an adjective, or a participle, and in. the former sense it would mean, it was then a marked line. If this be its proper sense, it is impossible to doubt that the evidence was altogether…