A surveyor is hired to do some sectional work about 1977. He breaks down some sections and sets nice brass caps. A few years to the west of his client another surveyor lays out "large" tracts and uses the section line as he found from the 1977 survey.
Then the tracts are sold and later fences built and finally the fence along the south line of the sectional survey is installed (probably 15 years later) and this is what happens:
Did any surveyor do anything wrong?
No.
However, this could have been easy to avoid, just move that tract corner to the brass cap. I know the tract lines maybe wouldn't have been exactly parallel then, but so what!!!!
But would it have met the 35 acre minimum? [sarcasm]Do fence builders have a liability statement on their plans?[/sarcasm]
So predictable??
With only the information presented, it appears the fence was incorrectly placed. Where would the authority originate allowing a surveyor to move a tract corner to the the quarter corner position?
So predictable??
I think MightyMoe is saying the fence was placed incorrectly. It could have been avoided if the tract corner had been originally made to coincide with the quarter corner.
Of course the fencer was told to go out and build a fence and found the tract corner with a brace panel already in place.......
So he hooked onto it.
He didn't know the real property corner was 20' south and there is a pin at the tract corner, the point is that when laying out tracts like that why not use existing corners? It saves confusion later. So many subdivisions get designed with these little offset points, the same thing happens with those over and over.
So predictable??
There's no authority to shift the corner, just use the brass cap in the first place, there was plenty of room to do that when the subdivision was first laid out. Which is my point, try and not make monuments so close together, sometimes it can't be helped, but this wasn't one of those times.
My current un-favorite plat (that I can't get to close in several places even assuming simple blunders) has this sequence on the two sides of a common line between lots. Notice the distances compute out to as little as 0.1 ft between corners. That's just crazy stupid. Although I haven't drawn them that way, the lines are angled and not parallel, so what difference would a little shift have made?
The copy I have won't reproduce well, so I extracted this data:
Coord Length Length Coord
/
0.0------------/
| 0.9
|------- 0.9
|
64.3 |
|62.7
|
|
|------- 63.6
64.3 ----------| <--- compute 0.3
|
64.4 |65.0
|
|------- 128.6
128.7 ----------| <--- compute 0.1
|
64.3 |
|
193.0 -----------|93.4
29.0 |
222.0 x------- 222.0
|
39.5 |
|
I'm glad you simplified that for us.:-P