Durden v. Kerby

Jenkins, Chief Justice.

Error is assigned upon the admission in evidence of a certain plat, over the plaintiff’s objection that no certificate was attached showing that it had been made by a surveyor or by whom it had been made, and that the document was prejudicial to the plaintiff because the jury was forced to consider it as a properly authenticated plat.

The Code, § 23-1112 (set forth in the first headnote), deals with surveys or plats of official origin, and when such surveys or plats conform to the provisions of that Code section, they are admissible as “presumptive evidence of the…