Kent McMillan, post: 415405, member: 3 wrote: I have yet to hear the folks who want to consider every precast right-of-way marker ever dropped in a ho...

Kent McMillan, post: 415273, member: 3 wrote: I think you're overlooking the important fact that the pairs of right-of-way markers show themselves not...

Kent McMillan, post: 415085, member: 3 wrote: Not really. There was centerline control maintained through the road construction process and it's reaso...

Kent McMillan, post: 415063, member: 3 wrote: Well, when the boundary is defined in relation to a certain line that was actually surveyed, then not ac...

Kent McMillan, post: 415052, member: 3 wrote: I'm pretty comfortable treating a call for 100 ft. as a call for 100.00 ft. :> The only time 100 ft=1...

Kent McMillan, post: 414840, member: 3 wrote: I hate to tell you this, but I sincerely doubt that the BLM Manual of Instructions deals with boundaries...

Kent McMillan, post: 414836, member: 3 wrote: Let's break that proposition down. Does a landowner have a "right" to rely upon some survey marker that ...

Kent McMillan, post: 414815, member: 3 wrote: Well, there are some fundamental principles involved. While there may be some states in which it is acce...

Jimmy Cleveland, post: 413783, member: 91 wrote: I have done some research on this, and have a few answers. I have discovered some maps that show the ...

Ken, I don't pretend to be an expert in Texas boundaries, maybe your argument would hold water there. Texas boundaries are unique in a number of ways...

Dave Karoly, post: 414518, member: 94 wrote: I think one of the problems we have is trying to apply logic to legal problems. Oliver Wendell Holmes, J...

MightyMoe, post: 414668, member: 700 wrote: My latest one, on a federal highway (land is owned by the state in fee):The description was 200' to the le...

JPH, post: 414660, member: 6636 wrote: The Vermont Statutes Online Title 19 : Highways Chapter 001 : State Highway Law; General Transportation Pro...

Kent McMillan, post: 414655, member: 3 wrote: Well, what "original monument" means in the normal sense is a monument that the parties had in view at t...

I don't get the argument that monuments don't control because they were set by a contractor. When someone hires a surveyor to subdivide their land the...

Andy Bruner, post: 414618, member: 1123 wrote: I agree BUT the attorney from the Attorney General's office (in Georgia) that I heard speak said that t...

Jp7191, post: 414611, member: 1617 wrote: This is the way I see it. Guy owns a piece of property. Dot takes a variable width sliver for bus turn out...

I never liked the argument that the monuments don't hold because contracters set them inaccurately. DOT is still responsible for them. Try telling the...

I have seen DOTs do both. Rejecting the monuments might make sence if they were set long after the aquisition, but I have never seen any legal justif...

An interesting question is what has become of the "brushy accretion" ?