Rice v. Trinity County

Citations

• 110 Cal. 247
• 42 P. 809
• 1895 Cal. LEXIS 1050

Syllabus

<p>County Boundary—Survey under Direction of Surveyor General— Liability of County.—Where a survey of a county boundary is made by a surveyor authorized by the surveyor general to make it, and i® officially sanctioned and approved by the surveyor general, the survey becomes his act, and is made by the surveyor general within the meaning of sections 483 and 3969 of the Political Code, although the surveyor making the survey is not a deputy surveyor general; and each of the counties adjoining upon the boundary is liable to the surveyor appointed by the surveyor general for its proportionate share of the cost of surveying and definitely marking out the boundary line.</p> <p>Id.—Authority of Surveyor General — Agency for State—Delegation of Mechanical and Field Work.—The law, in casting upon the surveyor general the duty of making public surveys, clothes him with the requisite power to enable him to perform that duty, and it is competent for him to employ surveyors and other functionaries usual and necessary in running the lines and doing the detail work required, and he is the agent of the state for the making of such surveys, and may delegate the mechanical part of the work to others, nor is it necessary that the field work should be done by or under the direct supervision of a deputy.</p>