GENERAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION v. KIRK

No. 70-184.

251 So.2d 284 (1971)

GENERAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Appellant, v. Claude KIRK, Jr., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied September 3, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Cheves, Jr., of Wotitzky, Wotitzky & Cheves, Punta Gorda, and Hazen & Isphording, Venice, for appellant.

Wilson & Wilson, Sarasota, for appellees.


MANN, Judge.

It all began before the War, in 1850. A U.S. Government surveyor plotting the west shore of Charlotte Harbor at the mouth of the Myakka River confused several sections with the ones immediately north. Thus, his section 11 looks like the shore line in what is actually section 2. He did not show any of section 2 on the river, but it is there.

In 1899, William Wood, perhaps relying on the incorrectly numbered survey, deeded a parcel commencing at...

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