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Interpreting the words used is the first – and most critical – of many steps that must be taken in the process of performing a retracement survey of property.
No doubt many of you have already heard about the recent article that appeared on Bloomberg.com entitled "Land Surveyors Are Paying the Price of Progress" ("Paying the Price").
Present-day Keg Island exists in the Mississippi River where the river flows between the states of Iowa and Illinois. It is over a mile long, maybe a quarter of a mile wide at its widest point, consisting of about 128 acres – and it is uninhabited.
A few years ago, Michael J. Pallamary compiled many of the lectures and articles written by the late Curtis M. Brown, along with the writings of others who chose to respond in some way to Brown’s views, into a volume entitled "The Curt Brown Chronicles."
I’m not exactly sure where the phrase “unwritten rights” came from or who came up with the idea of unwritten conveyances in relation to surveying, boundaries and deeds, but it seems that it caught on quickly and then became a universal idea in the land surveying profession.
I came to know David Griffin in 1997, when I moved my family from Tampa to Birmingham to join a national engineering and surveying firm that had opened its first office east of the Mississippi just the year before.
Several years ago (more than I want to count), I was putting together a program on liability and limitations on liability and ran across the 1994 Nebraska Supreme Court case of Lawyers Title v. Hoffman Engineers and Surveyors, (“Hoffman”).
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