The year is 1907.?ÿ Mr. and Mrs. Olson decide to plat a portion of their property.?ÿ The year is now 1911 and Mr. and Mrs. Olson decide to plat the remainder of their property as a different subdivision.?ÿ Everything appears to be great at first look.?ÿ But, of course not.?ÿ It seems that they decided to widen a forty-foot strip that should have been a street, but wasn't, into a sixty-foot street by taking the north 10 feet of the lots south of that screwy strip to put with?ÿ that forty feet plus another ten feet before starting the south line of the lots in the new subdivision.?ÿ Confused yet?
Weill, the first piece ever sold from either deed starts at the northeast corner of Lot J, goes 50 feet south, 150 feet west, 50 feet north and 150 feet east.?ÿ Sounds fine.?ÿ But the intent was to measure from the ORIGINAL platted northeast corner of that lot that is now 10 feet out into a dedicated street.?ÿ This was in 1927, long after both subdivisions were created.?ÿ The chaos continues as more pieces of lots are cut out over the next 95 years, with some measurements starting at the south line of the 60-foot street and some starting 10 feet further to the north.
I once had a client who owned 160 acres in four quarter quarter sections and wanted to split it up to leave to four children. A helpful uncle prepared the deeds to split the land but reversed the calls so that the SE1/4 NE1/4 was deeded as the NE1/4 of the SE1/4 and so on.?ÿ
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Have encountered two sections that were split up from the first entryman with the four forties that have the center of the section as a common corner owned by that entryman.?ÿ Technically, he had no access to the county roads that eventually were constructed around the section.?ÿ He was a quarter mile away from all of them.?ÿ I think it was about 1920 before he purchased a strip out of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter so he could access the road along the west section line.
We worked today in the subdivision mentioned above.?ÿ Found a half dozen bars for which we had no survey to use to expect to find them.?ÿ Think they may agree somewhat with the bars we were expecting to find.?ÿ Discovered bars 25 feet west of where I expected to find them, based on the description, but a fence and other occupation matches quite well.?ÿ It's a case of the description starting at the west street R-O-W line instead of the original lot line on the street center line/section line.
