Town of Warrenton v. Warren County

It must be conceded that the current of authority on the question here presented is wanting in clarity, if not in consistency. A definitive decision is perhaps devoutly to be wished. But again it is discovered that we have studied the same books and learned different lessons; read the same lines and construed them not alike.

The focus of the eye has much to do with the range of vision. If we fix our gaze on a single tree, we may not perceive the forest. If we look intently at the fly on the window, we may not see the window. If we rivet our attention on a single sentence, we may not observe…