Starts with Perry representing a client in a boundary dispute involving a riparian boundary.
The "surveyor" is a drunken reprobate and blackmailer who becomes the murder victim. And the murderer is his chainman.
There are, I think, at least 4 episodes of Perry that have a surveyor or a survey involved.
Perry gets extrinsic evidence admitted into the civil trial on whether the survey was, as the show puts it, a meander line or a boundary line. The testimony was from the Surveyor's assistant (after the Surveyor's murder) who turned out to be a grifter and murderer.
Mark Mayer, post: 352349, member: 424 wrote: The "surveyor" is a drunken reprobate....
Slightly redundant. 😀
What can be expected in real life, though? Was the Perry Mason episode based in a common principle?
Yes. That water boundaries move. If the boundary of a certain property was per the surveyed line then Perry's client could sell the property to developers for a bundle. If it was the river, which had moved several hundred feet in the 15 years since the survey, then she had nothing (or was it he other way around?). Everything hung on the testimony of the surveyor, who beside being a drunken reprobate was also the long lost stepfather of Perry's client. He blackmails Perry's client for his promised testimony, but before he can give it he is blown up by an IED. Perry's client is charged with his murder.