@wa-id-surveyor?ÿ Right, what you say certainly makes sense.?ÿ It makes me wonder if there would a case for failing to exercise the standard of care though.?ÿ It seems like a judge could say "Given these circumstances you should know better..."?ÿ But yeah I'm guessing a lot of guys wouldn't tempt fate.
Would that get me off the hook for liability?
That would be a good question to ask your E&O Insurance carrier...
Thanks, I'll send them an email. Im interested to hear what they'll say.
Update.
The contractor ended up sending an email to the Town and the engineer. Later that day I got an email from the contractor saying that the corners would be marked on Monday.
On Monday I had to do research anyway so I grabbed a few deeds and an old map done by the same engineer 40 years ago.
Yesterday I went out and found 4 new wood stakes marked "property corner". There was no iron in the ground but 2 of them did fall in the right of way fence and the 2 on the railroad were 33 feet from centerline.?ÿ The pavement that I was asked to stake fit almost exactly.
I was still skeptical so I staked the adjoining deed (the description was newer with bearings and distances). I ended up finding 2 monuments on the other end of the adjoining lot that hadn't been recently recovered. They checked within a few tenths.
Obviously some survey work was done for the project but it wasn't noted.
Gregg
Thread hijack: Interesting that you have a 1-chain RR width. Is that mostly an eastern state thing? Around here they are 100 ft.