In a message dated 11/12/01 10:23:10 AM US Eastern Standard Time, djd434@rnetinc.net writes: > The first deed I have which > mentions the exception is dated 1849. This exception, described in specific > size and location, is included on all future deeds up to and including the > deed of the previous owners issued January 1992. (The previous owners were > heirs of the owner responsible for the removal of structures on the site, > including a fence surrounding a cemetery and most of the stones in the > cemetery.) The previous owners sold the property to the current owners in > May 1998, and the description of the excepted area does not appear on the > current deed. The description of the current property is based on a survey > dated February 1998. The acreage, which had remained constant previously, > suddenly increased by 4.595 acres on the current deed. Shouldn't that have > been a really big red flag? And why did the surveyor ignore an excepted > area described so specifically on the previous (and all previous) deed(s)? > > Debra, You say there is an Exception on the deed. Does the deed specify this Exception as a graveyard, or is it a total amount of Acreage with the Exception of a certain amount that had previously been SOLD to someone else and there fore Excepted from the original deed. The Exception must say "Graveyard" and the size. Jack E. Briles, Sr. Floyd County PCRP Coordinator PO Box 444 New Albany, In. 47151-0444 (812) 282-6585