Deal v. Hubert

Plaintiff’s witness Bishop testified that he was a civil engineer and the county surveyor, and that he had surveyed the lands and lines in controversy, and made a substantially correct map thereof. He was properly allowed to state that the map “showed his survey.”

Referring to a blazed piece of timber produced in court, and shown to have been taken from the line of survey, the witness was allowed to say: “There were some little rises on each side there, which forced me to the conclusion I ought to find something.” The witness was basing his survey on the “field notes” and the marks or…