ASCERTAIN

To fix ; to render certain or definite; to estimate and determine; to clear of doubt or obscurity. Brown v. Lyd- dy, 11 Hun, 456; Bunting v. Speek, 41 Kan. 424, 21 Pac. 2SS, 3 L. It. A. 690; Pughe v. Coleman (Tex. Civ. App.) 44 S. W. 578.