Surveyor #1 is the primary surveyor in a particular county for over 20 years. A few others wandered in from time to time, but, probably at least 80 percent of all the boundary work went to this one guy. Problem was that he rarely filed his surveys. He filed just enough to make it seem as though he was being open. Truth was he wanted to have an office full of files worth big bucks to someone else when he wanted to retire.
Surveyor #2 comes along about five years ago. Project required a full section analysis of the section in which we were working today. He has performed very few surveys in said county. He obviously did not do a proper job of researching the properties in the section. A three-acre tract had been whittled out of the northeast quarter a few years earlier. Anyone reading the description could tell a surveyor was involved.
I'm Surveyor #3. By following the words in the description for the three-acre tract I find the northeast corner monument and north quarter corner monument and the monuments around the little tract. These were clearly put there by Surveyor #1. Surveyor #2 had found the monument at the northeast corner and labeled it "origin unknown" then set a north quarter corner monument at half distance and straight line to the northwest corner monument that he set using apparent evidence. I found both of their monuments and they were about 4.5 feet different north-south and 1.5 feet east-west.
Oh. You may want to know what I did. I went with Surveyor #1 based on his excellent prior work and overall knowledge of everything involving surveys in the county. Surveyor #2 is one of those fellows who hasn't left his desk in over 30 years and signs off on whatever his crew comes up with.
Sounds soooo familiar. I could have wrote the same thing with a few differences. Surveyor #1 filed everything at the court houses, Surveyor #2 doesn't and set corners wherever the bar lands on the ground from an eyeball guestimation.
It seems it is clear to us who set the monuments but not so clear to a judge.
What County & State?
Okay, then, what state ?
> Sounds soooo familiar. I could have wrote the same thing with a few differences. Surveyor #1 filed
surveyor #1 has not deposited nothing with the clerk of the recorder.
Surveyor 1 (past county surveyor BTW)has been sanctioned by the BOR, major fines and his work is being reviewed for time to come, he must also take ethics courses
Kansas. A recording state. BTW, Surveyor #2 didn't file anything with the State, either. I determined that a survey had been done through observation of a government-funded activity on an adjoining farm for which a survey is required. I contacted the appropriate government agency and they supplied me the survey. Until then, I had no clue who was Surveyor #2.
