Court Opinion

ID: 9832888
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:16:46.808143+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:54.923036
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
In this cause appellants have filed a motion for rehearing, in which two questions are especially stressed. While due regard was given- these questions in the original opinion, we will again refer to them. Such questions are: (a) That, as block No. 7 of the Mund Gross survey was surveyed on the ground at the time of the subdivision of such survey into blocks, the footsteps • of the surveyor must be followed, regardless of any mistake made by the surveyor in the location of lines of surveys that had been theretofore marked and established by actual surveys on the ground, and regardless of the intention of James F. Starr to include all of the land in the Mund Gross survey in the subdivision blocks; and (b) because that portion of the original decision, which held that calls for adjoinder in the survey of block No. 7 should control over the call for distance, is in conflict with the decision of the Supreme Court, in Turner v. Smith, 61 S.W.(2d) 792.
It is true that all of the subdivision blocks of the Mund Gross survey, made by James F. Starr, including block No. 7, were actually surveyed on the ground. It is also true that James F. Starr intended the beginning corner of block No. 7 to be the most westerly southwest corner of the Mund Gross survey, which is also the southeast corner of the Moore survey; and he likewise intended the south line of block No. 7 to be extended from this said corner to the east line of the Mund Gross survey; the latter line had been previously marked and established by actual survey. It was also the intention of Starr that the north line of block No. 7 should be extended from a point in the east line of the Mund Gross survey, established as the northeast corner of such block, to a point in the west line of said survey, which latter line coincides with the east line of the Moore survey, and had been marked and established by actual survey. These intentions of Starr are clear and unmistakable from this record. As shown in the original opinion, when Starr conveyed block No. 7, he intended to convey all of the land embraced in the description of block No. 7, the field notes of, which called for its north and south lines to join, respectively, to the east line of the Mund Gross survey on the one side, and the west line of such survey on the other. The calls for distance of these lines, contained in the field notes of block No. 7, do not coincide with the actual distance between the east and west lines of the Mund Gross survey, because the surveyor was mistaken as to the location of the most westerly southwest corner of the Mund Gross survey, and mistaken as to the location of the established west line of such survey.
We held that the calls for distance were inferior to the calls for adjoinder to long existing and established lines, and also that such holding was the only one that would conform to the intention of Starr; that, because of such mistake of the surveyor, as to *248the location of the western boundary line of the Mund Gross survey and the consequential mistake of the location of its most westerly southwest corner, we should not follow in the footsteps of the surveyor, adopt such mistake, and thereby do violence to the clear intention of appellants’ ancestor, under whom they claim, but should follow the calls for ad-joinder.
We do not believe the original opinion is in conflict with the case of Turner v. Smith, supra, which held that distance calls would prevail over a call made upon misapprehension as to the location of an unmarked line. If a line be unmarked, its location has not been established by a survey. In the instant case, the lines called for had been established and marked by an actual survey, and this is the distinction between these two cases. We are therefore of the opinion that the motion for rehearing should be overruled.
Overruled.