Court Opinion

ID: 9453488
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:15:04.614506+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:39.201039
License: Public Domain

MERRILL, Circuit Judge
(concurring) :
I concur in the result reached by the majority. In my view Township 27 and Township 28 are right'where the Government put them, whether that is precisely where they were intended to be put or not. Officiál approval and platting of the surveys established the township boundaries in accordance with their respective monuments. Consequently the north boundary of Township 28 is where Ha-thorn put it and the south boundary of Township 27 is where Heydon put it. Heydon did not affect the Township 28 line since he did not purport to re-establish it and was not concerned with that township. His assumption that he was on a common boundary cannot affect what he actually did and what the Government officially adopted. The resulting error in placement was subject to official correction and to re-establishment of a common boundary, but such correction and the decision to correct are beyond the judicial function. The result is that the area designated as Township 27% is still unpatented public land.

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