As to my question did the surveyor show his opinion of the boundary, there is a little more to the story. I should have posted this along with the pla...

Sooner or later most boundary surveyors are going to get a job where the record title is nothing like the actual possession throughout the area and th...

Based on my experience there are consequences from marrying a smart woman.  

The case that inspired this discussion is a good example of several noteworthy items. The court's opinion can be found here: Colvin v Jones First,...

The most? Did you forget politicians?

I never liked the term 'witness corner'. Something like 'line marker' would be better. Until 1940, surveyors in my area still marked 'witness trees' t...

GaryG is on-target for what could have been done, but with restrictions, it might have been a long time selling the lots. I don't know wether to cal...

I want to draw a distinction here between what a surveyor does and what a surveyor says. State Boards, through the authority conferred by the state le...

Delay you say? As a party chief I always enjoyed taking a break and talking to landowners. I always thought a little downtime was baked into the fees....

My high school English teacher would give me an 'F' for that. Rather than show my red neck ignorance, I should let AI speak for me ... "In the territ...

Where I usually worked, from about 1915 to 1935, we had three county surveyors who did sectional breakdowns by the book. At that time, evidence of the...

I'm not sure there is much we would disagree on. If we were working on the same property, I wouldn't be surprised if we arrived at the exact same boun...

I always thought that boundaries were initially established by the original conveyance. In this case, the patent refers to the General Land Office (GL...

When I was young, an old surveyor told me that he liked to avoid litigation. I think he must have had some bad experience with litigation. His trick w...

Can you give an authoritative source for that concept?

I think something like that happened in every section I ever worked in. So doesn't the chaos start when a surveyor tries to force a record title line ...

I like a lot of what was said here on evaluating record title v. acts-of-the-adjoiners ( adverse possession, written or implied agreement, acquiescenc...

I like a lot of what was said here on evaluating record title v. acts-of-the-adjoiners ( adverse possession, written or implied agreement, acquiescenc...

A 100 years ago in my area, surveys seldom had plats drawn unless it was to create a subdivision. The record of survey was of the narative style somew...

When I was a kid I had a next door neighbor who passed the bar exam without going to law school. Two of the best engineers I worked with never went to...