Buster v. Holland

Statement by

GkeeN, Jud&e:

While the testimony in this cause is contradictory, and where not contradictory is often indefinite as to material facts, and while the pleadings too are often so vague as to be almost unintelligible, it seems to me we can collect from the entire record the substantial facts, out of which the controversy in this cause has arisen. Some of the facts occurred prior to'the institution of the suit, and others after the suit was commenced; and it is in this, as in most other cases, absolutely essential in deciding it, that we should distinguish the former from the latter.…