@murphy?ÿ In rural areas the survey that is not used by the landowners to follow our footsteps would be the exception rather than the rule. You are r...

@norm The Horizontal Plane in that context means not slope distances.

@big-d-2?ÿ Surveyors can't "practice law", but they do interpret how the law applies to the set of facts they are considering and apply that interpre...

It's not at all clear that the surveyor made a mistake measuring from the ROW boundary. It sounds like the deed may have called for the boundary, not ...

It's hard to enjoy a joke at the expense of such disturbing subject matter.?ÿ

In most states either the courts or statute addresses this. In most states the burden to prove that a strip under a road was left out of a conveyance ...

It looks to me like he is being careful of not stepping over the land. There is some overlap between attorneys and land surveyors, and the exact line ...

@shawn-billings?ÿ Using distances and bearings over a monument (witness tree) is exactly what the courts tell us not to do.?ÿ

@shawn-billings?ÿ We don't guarantee boundary as form of insurance (that's the title companies job), but we do guarantee with our stamp the boundary ...

@shawn-billings?ÿ Your right, a surveyor doesn't guarantee title with a survey, but they are guaranteeing the boundary, and the boundary can't be gua...

@shawn-billings?ÿ Your right, a surveyor doesn't guarantee title with a survey, but they are guaranteeing the boundary, and the boundary can't be gua...

That statement is meaningless from anyone's perspective except a title insurers. What are you trying to achieve by adding that statement??ÿ If it mak...

@dave-karoly?ÿ The bearing and distance is the section corner to the the 1/4 corner they set based on the 1948 falling. What isn't quite clear is wha...

Probably the "falling" was reported perpendicular to the 1948 section line, not from the new 1948 quarter corner. If the BLM did not match the 1948 re...

Probably the "falling" was reported perpendicular to the 1948 section line, not from the new 1948 quarter corner. If the BLM did not match the 1948 re...

Yeah this has always bothered me too. Sometimes we just have to assume a monument represents a bona fide attempt at locating the corner, but of course...

@husker796?ÿ I keep thinking I understand what you are saying and I agree with you but this throws me off,?ÿ "The error can be discovered only by a c...

@bstrand?ÿ I don't think the courts have ever found or can ever find that any decision of a resurveyor is "without error". A resurvey always has a no...

@dmyhill?ÿ But this doesn't necessarily hold for a monument that is not the original.

@scott-bordenet An important part of this is that once the original is gone, you need to back up your acceptance (or rejection) with evidence. What yo...