Nanny v. Vaughn
Nanny v. Vaughn
Opinion of the Court
We find no reason to disturb the judgment in this case. Appellant claims sections 21 and 22, block S-2, and section 91, block M-ll, and these sections were awarded to him by the judgment below. He makes no claim to the Ardrey survey owned by appellee, which undisputedly lies south of the south line of said sections 21 and 22; the call for the northeast corner of the Ardrey being for the southeast corner of section 21.
The disputed question is as to the proper *500 location of said sections 22 and 21. It appears that blocks 10-T, 9-T, and S-2 were office surveys, and if sections 21 and 22 be located, as appellant contends should be done, by calls for course and distance alone from the well-identified corner fixed by John Summerfield on the west boundary line of block m-6, adopted for the southwest corner of section 347 and northwest corner of section 346 in said block M-6, then said sections 21 and 22 will lie south and west from the southeast corner of section 91, block M-ll, which is made the beginning corner of section 21, and so extended would overlap and cover appellee’s Ardrey survey; but we feel unable to say that the jury were unwarranted in finding, as they evidently did, that the calls for section 91, in block M-ll, should be given effect. The evidence warrants the inference that in plotting blocks 10-T, 9-T, S-2, and M-ll the surveyor who made out or adopted the field notes of these several blocks had in mind and was controlled by other lines and objects as well as by the common corners given of sections 347 and 346, block M-6. The north line of block M-ll distinctly calls for the south line of block M-8 and block M-6. The northwest corner of block M-8 and northeast corner of block 2-Z is distinctly fixed by the evidence at a well-identified corner constituting the southwest corner of section 208, block 6 and the southeast corner of block B-5; this corner being nine miles south of the well-identified northeast corner of block B-5. The field notes of block M-8, signed by Hed-rick and filed and approved in the Land Office, call for mounds all along the west line of block M-8, and the surveys along the east line of M-6 likewise call for the same mounds, it being the evident intent of the locator of these blocks that blocks 6, B-5, 2-Z, M-8, and M-6 should adjoin and cover all of the territory included by the outer calls; and the testimony of Hutchinson, who surveyed the west line of M-8 and the east line of M-6, authorizes the inference that along this line he found the original mounds called for in the field notes of these two blocks, that he fixed therein, allowing for an excess found, iron pipes, thus definitely fixing upon the ground the south lines of block M-8 and block M-6, and by calls for course and distance fixed the south line of block M-ll, fixing as the southeast comer of said section 91, block M-ll, an iron pipe, and the jury thus evidently fixed the beginning corner of appellant’s section 21, block S-2, at the southeast corner of section 91, block M-ll, for which the field notes in section 21 call.
What we have said we think will dispose of many of the assignments of error, but we will refer to some of them briefly. We think the rejection of Flannigan’s testimony, complained of in the first assignment, immaterial for the reason that there seems to be but little, if any, dispute about the location of the southwest corner of 347, block M-6; the issue and the only issue material as we conceive it under the testimony was whether surveys 21 and 22, block S-2, should be located by calls for course and distance alone from the corners mentioned, or whether the jury might locate these surveys by their calls for sections 91 and 92, block M-ll, and other evidence to which we have referred.
We conclude that all assignments of error should be overruled, and the judgment affirmed.
Affirmed.
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