This course has been discontinued.
Court decisions provide basic principles and guidelines, but in order to apply them, it is first necessary to understand how they arose and their limitations and applications. This interactive online course is the third installment of the three-part retracement cases. It covers basic principles of boundary retracement along with the use of several types of evidence, such as survey data and original field notes.
This course presents four relatively recent, later cases on boundary retracement. Several stress the importance of, and the reasoning behind, strict following of original boundaries. The cases covered are:
- Case 1 Stafford v. King, 30 Tex. 257 (1867)
- Case 2 Hart v. Gries, 155 S.W.2d 997 (Texas, 1941)
- Case 3 Sellman v. Schaaf, 269 N.E.2d 60 (Ohio, 1971)
- Case 4 U.S. v. Champion Papers, 361 F. Supp. 141 (D.C. Texas, 1973)