Why would you not fully constrain the vertical component of the network to first order marks nearer the wells as Bill describes? I agree you would wan...

Bill is right. OPUS height solutions out there could be half a foot off local published heights. OPUS RS isn't even available there which means OPUS s...

Based on these facts, the circuit court properly focused its analysis on what constitutes the best evidence available to establish the boundary line. ...

Even if the 1948 notes cannot be located its evident what the resurvey did based on the 1948 notes. They couldn't find any witness trees from 1948 or ...

That's a HARN by golly. I sympathize with your situation. Getting your supervisor's to understand why their expectations are somewhat unrealistic is q...

I received no response and didn't pursue it. My interest in this is only out of curiosity. But I would sure like to see that book!

You might want to try thisI hope you have better luck than I did. Field Book 118 page 53

SkieThe chance that the datasheets are off as much as you indicate are about a thousand times less than the chance there is something wrong with your ...

linebender posted some thoughts about this caseWhy am I being dragged into this ? 🙂 breifly...The 1835 notes call for a pond half a chain north of ...

KWI'm sure you do. I feel fortunate to have received my most important training as a rodman on a PLSS retracemnt and restoration crew in the 70's. I w...

You need to realize that not many of us, if any, have run original lines of the PLSS!Um Keith, I think you might want to rephrase that. I've seen scad...

Here is RECENT Utah LawLRwell done, I knew you wouldn't finish a survey without a well reasoned opinion. I might add that those requirements make it e...

I Put that one in the hard file. That's a good one. Thank you. LR is on solid ground according to that opinion.

I've given this some thought. I agree with Keith's post. There has to be a difference between a monument "known" as the aliquot corner and a monument ...

Huh?Point being there is only one legal boundary that can be legally claimed.

Good question. The 1971 survey is not available. It would be interesting to see if it referenced the fence. All we know about it is the 2007 claims to...

Judges are lawyers. Most of them are a jack of all law, master of none. Surveyors are not without sin when it comes to dreaming something up that fits...

Moving on to deed correctionBrianThis is one of the hardest concepts for surveyors (me included) to grasp. The standard practice here is to describe n...

It's true that surveyors need to know their own state court rulings and quirks that are established. For example our Supreme Court ruled that only the...

Moving on to deed correctionQuestion:Putting the issue of the 2007 survey aside, did the most recent survey and new description clean up the title as ...