Ring ring whoopsie

Me: Uh, hello.
Caller: Uh, is this the Register of Deeds Office?
Me: (chuckling) Well, no, but maybe I can help you. What are you needing?
Caller: I was wanting to call the Register of Deeds Office to find out if there was a survey on property next to mine.
Me: I can probably help you with that. Where is the property?
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What had happened was he had their number and my number side by side and simply called what he thought was the wrong number first. In fact, he had called the best number. The answer was "Yes, it has been surveyed." We did that survey about 10 months ago. I recalled it quite well because of the details involved. Bottom line with the call is that I helped him to know what he really wanted to know today and I will probably be hired by him to locate the critical line one more time and mark it while he watches.

This is why he was searching for information. Many years ago the land belonged to a fickle sort of fellow. He deeded the north 10 acres of that aliquot part to one of his sons about 30 years ago to build a house on. The son sort of used whatever land he thought would be handy instead of ever worrying about where the divide line might be. The use line, with a wandering fence here and there was far from a straight line and, as it turned out, in places more than 100 feet into Dear Ol' Dad's remainder tract. Probably 20 years ago the dad died. So, son and his siblings became undivided owners of the remainder tract. Maybe five years ago they sold the remainder tract to the fellow who called today. He's a nice fellow who makes a lot of money and likes to have some rural real estate to wander around on when he gets sick and tired of dealing with people who are sick and tired (doctor). He has no livestock to fence in so had never really cared much about where the property stopped and started. Lots of cedar (uh, excuse me, juniper) trees and rocks. About two years ago, the son with the 10-acre tract died suddenly. His heirs sold the tract ASAP to cover his burial expenses and to get whatever was left into their hands. That buyer then sold the property last year with the buyer insisting on the survey we did because it was evident there was no clear demarcation on the south property line.

Apparently, the new owners have ignored the survey line and have dozed out even more trees and built a small pond on the strip that was part of the land deeded about five years ago to today's caller. I'm betting that he who has the most expensive lawyer will win out.