Was reviewing a boundary survey yesterday with a notable misclosure. Picture a rural road entering a tract a few hundred feet south of the northeast corner, then continuing on various curves until it crosses the north line of the parent tract roughly 2000 west of said northeast corner, enclosing an area of eight acres. The subject description read that the POB was at the northeast corner, then such and such south along the east line so far, then thus and so various bearings and curves until the center line of the named road intersected the north line, then along the north line 5285.50 feet to the POB. What? The north line is only on the order of 2000 feet not 5285.50 feet. In this case, the distance from the west quarter corner to the east quarter corner is the big number. The distance to the tip of the tract surveyed is only about 2000 feet. Both numbers appear on the drawing on opposite sides of the line representing the final call. The draftsman just grabbed the wrong one. The surveyor signed off wihtout catching the minor misclosure.
Some times, when you look at something enough, the obvious is not obvious.