Kendall v. Lowther

WOLLE, Justice.

This quiet title action concerns a land survey gone awry. Although the parties to this appeal vigorously dispute most of the facts and all of the legal theories which other parties have advanced, they agree that a land survey obtained by defendants Clement and Irene Lowther from surveyor Plorus Brummer was seriously inaccurate and did not correspond to the legal descriptions by which Lowthers conveyed two parcels of adjoining real estate. To resolve the boundary dispute that resulted, the families who purchased those parcels retained counsel, bought their own surveys, and…