AMBIGUITY

Doubtfulne ; doublenesl!I <if meaning; indistinctne or uncertainty of meaning of an expre ion used in a written instrument. Nindle v. State Bank, 13 Neb. '245, 13 N. W. 275; Ellmaker v. Ellmaker, 4 Watts (,Pa.) 89; Kraner v. Halsey, 82 Cal. 209, 22 Pac. 1137; Ward v. Epsy, 6 Humph. (Tenn.) 447. An ambiguity may be either Ja.tent or.f}aten.t. rt is the former, where the language employed 1s clear and intelligible and suggests but a single meaning, but some extrinsic fact or extraneous evidence creates a nece ity for interpretation or a choice among two or more po ible meanings. But a ·patent ambiguity is that which appears on. the face of the blstrument, and arlses from [s. 70]