Holy Cow, post: 400421, member: 50 wrote: Last night on Saturday Night Live there was a skit where the story line became stranger and stranger and stranger. Eventually the head of a member of the audience exploded into smithereens, leaving a headless body sitting in the seat.
Hee hee, here we go...........................................
Anyone want to guess the width of the lots?
No two had the same width. Out of 15 opportunities, not one measured 15.0 feet. The narrowest was about 17 feet. The widest around 25 feet. All 15 property owners were content with what they owned, whether or not it would conform precisely to what some anal retentive survey technician might try to claim. Each had purchased a building. The deed may have said Lot 10, but the actual location of the building was all that mattered.
My project was directly across Main Street where there was nothing but grass and a few trees. I simply needed the information from the other side of Main Street to guide me towards my tract.
But you do realize that one good lawyer with a palsy-wowzy judge could flip that intent. It happens a lot and people's heads can explode. But there are quick and simple legal remedies to rectify the situation
Mea Culpa...Lord, forgive me for getting involved in this discussion.
I goofed. I said, "not one measured 15.0 feet". What I intended to say was "not one measured 22.0 feet". The plat indicated 15 lots, each being 22 feet wide.
We had no real need to worry about the buildings across the street from our target tract but couldn't help but note how they had differing widths. That lead to doing research on them all at the courthouse in hopes of finding some ancient surveys describing lot splits. Thus, theoretically, providing us with more places to search for old survey monuments to support the configuration of our block.
Yes, one survey could "correct" the situation if all building owners (and any mortgage holders) were willing to file the deeds as required. It is far more likely that the entire block will eventually degrade to where one person could buy the entire block for a small sum.
As an aside, that town and several others in that county are rarities for our corner of the State. The plats show monuments set at the center of street intersections and not on the block lines. Everywhere else we normally work we find the reverse to hold true. Block corners and some, if not all, lot corners were monumented on the plat with no street intersection monuments. Of course, there are protracted subdivisions with square assumptions and measurements totaling to something like 660, 1320 or 2640. Another case of where one needs to know more than how to measure to be a professional land surveyor.
I find it fascinating that this post has been brought back to life after all these months at this particular time. The world works in mysterious ways!
I liked that Choctaw Bingo song!, never heard of it before but he could make a good 1 like that in WV too! I found that rock right beside another pin on my first trip ever out on a boundary survey to help out, a couple weeks ago. Thought that was pretty neat so I used the picture, there was also lines of rock that matched an old fence too . I was wondering if those owners from page 6 settled on it or what had happened.