Seward v. Casler
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Woodward County; J. L. Pancoast, Judge. E. E. Casler and others filed a petition with the County Surveyor for a survey of their lands, and a survey was thereafter made and report filed in his office. T. J. Seward appealed from the survey to the District Court, where the survey was affirmed, and Seward brings error. On the 12th day of February, A. D. 1906, there, was filed in the office of the county surveyor, J. A. Innis of Woodward county, Oída.
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Error from District Court, Woodward County; J. L. Pancoast, Judge. E. E. Casler and others filed a petition with the County Surveyor for a survey of their lands, and a survey was thereafter made and report filed in his office. T. J. Seward appealed from the survey to the District Court, where the survey was affirmed, and Seward brings error. On the 12th day of February, A. D. 1906, there, was filed in the office of the county surveyor, J. A. Innis of Woodward county, Oída. T., a petition, the body of which is in words and figures as follows: “We the undersigned owners or occupants of the"1…
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, J.
(after stating the facts as above). The plaintiff in error in his brief says:
“The only question involved in this ease is: Which will prevail, the government monuments found on the ground, or the courses and distances 1” n
It is a well-settled rule that the definitely ascertained monuments or corner stones fixed by the government surveyors as the boundary between sections must govern, and that in re-establishing corners and boundary lines destroyed or in dispute they must control both courses and distances: but in this case the lower court, without the intervention of a jury found:
1 “That the…
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