Haughton v. Bilson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

A survey was had under the statute for the purpose of locating the center of a section. The surveyor decided that a stone monument which he discovered should be regarded as marking such corner, on the theory that it had been set for that purpose in the course of an earlier survey, although it was in fact twenty-two feet west of the true or mathematical cen*130ter. John Haughton and others appealed from the surveyor’s report. Upon a trial in the district court it was affirmed. Later Haughton and those having interests in common with him filed a…