In today's California Land Surveyors Forum, You'll never guess who uttered these remarkable words:
"A fence that is built to erroneous corners does not create a boundary."
Bauman and Robillard would be proud.
I for one am glad to see he's finally coming around.
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Was it Zombie Richard Schaut?
Was it qualified by "except under certain circumstances, use, and time frame!" Who was the speaker?
Would you believe those words actually came from a Mr. Williams?
Actually, I'm just having some fun. Keith seems so ardent the need to recognize establishment over measurement. In the CLSA post he has appeared to do almost a 180.
To be fair, his clsa post was about someone who built a fence to an unrecorded monument which is being interpreted as representing a 1/16th monument. It is further complicated due to recognition of 2 sets of section corners. Certainly messy.
It simply struck me as ironic that Keith came out and said to the effect that the reliance on the unrecorded 1/16 was unacceptable evidence.
Note that the 1/16th corner the owner's relied on has not been proved or disproved at this juncture. Rather it is simply evidence of occupation. Right now the OP is trying to figure out his next steps as to what to accept and reject. Keith came right out and said reject the monument regardless of occupation.
Pardon me if I see the irony in that.
Sounds bogus to me;-)
Don
Now, now, now. Let's play nice, here.
The key to the statement is the 'erroneous corners' part. Just because some unknown person stuck what might be construed as a survey monument within spitting distance of where a corner would be placed by a reputable surveyor doing a thorough survey procedure to arrive at the solution, does not mean the quasi-survey monument thingy should be used by anyone to establish boundaries.
The critical difference is that the entrymen who had virtually no access to skilled surveyors had no choice but to do the best they could with the resources they had available. They all stood back and looked at what they had done and agreed to the result. Their successors and assigns tacitly agreed to what was in existence.