Hruby v. Lonseth,. 63 Wash. 589, 116 P. 26 (1911)
thanks for your help
It is on a steep street in Seattle; I wonder if that had something to do with the problem?
> It is on a steep street in Seattle; I wonder if that had something to do with the problem?
Yeah, it's always hard to remember whether you add the cosine correction going uphill and subtract it going downhill, or vice versa. (This is based upon an eyewitness account of an actual argument-in-progress among field crew members entering the office at the end of a field day.)
Maybe the original surveyor simply slope chained it with no correction.
Although in 463' the slope would be about 23% slope (108' vertical) to get the 12.5' deficiency from the true horizontal distance.
It's a 1911 case. It appears that the court thinks the City Engineer did the measurement correctly.
The Trial Court seems to think the problem was caused by a distance too long from the other direction but that could've just been calculated from the GLO record minus the 463'.