12/23/2019
UPDATE: Answer and explanation posted in the comments. (On the original post on the Survey USA page only)
Quiz #3...Boundary Principles
In 1922 Mr. Jones purchased the "Southeast 1,000 feet of the Baker Tract". Before the sale was finalized, Mr. Baker set 1" iron pipes at the 4 corners of the square parcel and walked them with Mr. Jones.
In 1935 Mr. Jones sold Mr. Smith the "West 500 feet" of his parcel. No monuments were set defining the boundaries of this parcel to be purchased by Mr. Smith.
After Mr. Smith built his house and settled down, the two began to not get along very well. One year after Mr. Smith purchased his property from Mr. Jones, they had an argument over where Mr. Jones' cattle were grazing. Mr. Jones argued that the cattle fence that runs North/South was the property line so Mr. Smith had no right to complain. Mr. Smith argued that he never complained about the preexisting fence being on his property because it was already built and he didnt want to make Mr. Jones take it down. Mr. Jones insisted the cattle fence was the boundary and that should have been obvious when Mr. Smith purchased the property.
Mr. Smith hired a surveyor...The surveyor recovered 3 of the four iron pipes that Mr. Baker had set in 1922. The pipes recovered were the SW, SE, and NE monuments. The distance between the recovered SW and SE pipes is 950 feet and the distance between the SE and NE was 949.8 feet. The distance from the cattle fence to the east line of Mr. Jones' property defined by the recovered pipes is 550 feet.
The true boundary line between Mr. Jones' and Mr. Smith's properties is...
A) The cattle fence
B) The cattle fence, but Smith gets an additional 50' on the West because Jones originally purchased 1000' from Baker
C) The midpoint between the SW and SE recovered pipes
D) 500' East of the SW recovered pipe
