Enterprise Transit Co. v. Collins

Citations

• 222 Pa. 372
• 71 A. 540
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 717

Syllabus

<p>Land law — Surveys—Absence of monuments — Courses and distances— Location.</p> <p>Where a survey has its north corner and west corner marked upon the ground, and the northwesterly line between them is fixed, the southeasterly line will be located by running the official courses and distances from the fixed monuments, if there are no monuments on the line made or adopted to stop it short of its official distance, notwithstanding the fact that the protraction of other lines of the same block of which the warrant is a member would stop it short of said distance.</p> <p>A surveyed warrant, although a member of a block, that has upon the ground its northern and western corners is well located by running the official courses and distances from said comers without reference to the marks on other members of the block not made or adopted specially for it.</p>