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Original vs. Retracement (both GLO)
A few years back I received a call about surveying a disputed line along the right descending bank of the Red River. I had done a boundary survey along the same said bank a couple of miles south of this property and found some ineteresting problems (another post for another day).
Anyways, my client owned a fractional part of a section that included a meander line. The original survey included said meander. Around 40 years after the original survey, the GLO sent another survey crew out to survey the accreted lands. Everything was flooded according to the notes and the new surveyor had trouble finding original monumentation.
The new guy went north after securing boats and found what he believed to be an original witness tree. He then proceeded south and ran the meander line as recorded. It turns out that he was 200′ north of the original line and even shows a huge break at the northeast corner.
Fast forward 100 years and now we have two section lines on the north end. The problem is that they both fit GLO depending on which version is used. My client didn’t understand that both versions could be correct or that I wasn’t able to give him a definitive answer as to which was correct. Occupation fits the line 200′ north & would probably hold up through acquiesence/adverse possession, but the 2nd surveyor in wasn’t commissioned to set that particular corner.
What say you guys?
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