I can see a court having an interesting time with this case.As the claimant at adverse possession seems to have a claim of 40+ years a question to be ...
At age five, in 1953.Dad and Cap Anderson let me carry a couple of pipes. The barbed wire fences were about eight feet tall and the holsteins were as ...
The catch is knowing the difference in your state between the practice of surveying and the practice of law. The dividing line seems to be blurring mo...
I agree that it is a "lawyer question".In many jurisdictions the transferability of rights in real estate which are unwritten are problematic due to t...
As far as I can tell, none of his "solutions" have been submitted for independent review by any third party. I haven't seen any independent verificati...
Like the Spanish Inquisition, "Nobody expects the RULE OF MERGER", in this case a lawyer. Hilarious.
Oh, I agree and thanks for the post.courts and juries may be required to follow after the surveyor over the same ground, and that it is exceedingly de...
From Clark:"It is not the surveyor's responsibility to set up new lines except when he is surveying heretofore unplatted land or subdividing a new tra...
See Gavit's Adm'rs v. Chambers, 3 Ohio 495 for the first-ever analysis of the topic.
My recollection about Henry was that he was retired from Georgia Pacific or one of the major lumber outfits. I could be wrong about some of my memorie...
Thanks for posting the links.By the mid 1970's Henry (who always charged too little) had moved his hourly rate to 1/20th of the national cost of livin...
Just on a historical note, many years ago I had dinner a couple of times with F. Henry Sipe. We had some great conversations. I had a lot of experienc...
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.Mark Twain
I really enjoyed reading the thread.It's refreshing to find a group of old guys who are even more cranky than we are.
"Blighty"I had not heard that word for many years referring to the UK. I think it was an Australian surveyor I was working with at the time.Can you el...
The eastern ones go mainly to Florida. Clearwater is an Ontario enclave there.The western ones from BC and Alberta just head south in their Escalades,...
Lightsquared talkingpoint wonksIt's clear that LSQ and a certain GPS vendor may be facing some changes in their plans. They have a kind of similar app...
It's the great research and field work which makes these amazing recoveries possible.Thanks for posting.
Hmmm.....1818, about the time of the PLSS First Meridian Survey (Ohio).Baseline defined as 41 degrees north. But today that established baseline appea...