> Does the acreage match the plat or does the acreage match the legal description? > Acreage is very small potatoes in the line of evidence tha...
StephenThanks Stephen, years ago I would have argued the other way. Why? Because, like many others - that is what I was taught!!You have brought up ...
No AP doesn't apply. The boundary line is where it was originally staked and agreed upon by the grantor & grantees. Title and location are in ha...
> One thing we don't know is the original smaller lot owners the current owners? How do we know who walked the lot lines when? Is it hearsay?When...
> The title company has written a policy guaranteeing what the surveyor has shown on paper.> Only if the an extended policy was written.> Sin...
> This is not a title problem. The questions is what was sold by the grantor to the grantees.Nope. There is no question that the grantor sold wha...
> I assume that in addition to the survey there is a legal deed recorded for each parcel? This is what the landowners own title to. I am not sure...
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> That is what title insurance is for.> Why is this a title problem?
> Interesting ....not sure what i would do except show the situation and let the attorneys fight it out.. > I hope you forgot the sarcasm font.&...
> I've run across this situation before and know what I'm going to do but maybe one of you will change my mind.> I run into this nearly everyday...
Recent case law from TexasTH INVESTMENTS, INC. v. KIRBY INLAND MARINE 218 S.W.3d 173 (2007) When finding the lines of a survey, "[t]he cardinal rule i...
Here's another case: Tyson v Edwards one of my favorites;-) "It is not the surveyor's right or responsibility to set up new points and lines establ...
> Bill,> > Re: acquiescence; in this particular matter all fencing is new, and there is nothing regarding evidence of acquiesce of any length...
I was wondering if (a very rare occasion if true) all the parcels in this neighborhood are reliant solely on the one corner "in question"? Are they m...
> Why do surveyors always say things like "land was cheap back then" . . . or something like it, when explaining poorer quality work "back then"?&g...
The two most important tools in the truck: a good sturdy shovel and heaping helping of common sense. Good job
Many Unknowns> I may have taken your post to be saying more than what you intended it to say. In this entire thread, the sticking point for me com...
Many Unknowns> > No where in the law I've read, has it been held that a monument must be presumed to be an errant monument, approximation, or ev...
Many UnknownsThis thread is very instructive. Many have expressed opinions, theories, etc. about the found "goat stake", "hunk of iron", "piece of me...