§35-3-20. Order for survey on motion of court.

(a) Whenever in any action pending in the circuit court it is pertinent and material to the determination of the issue or issues therein or to the proper entering of a description in the judgment therein to establish or fix a disputed land line or boundaries between coterminous landowners, or to locate the position of a line of the government survey, or to locate a landmarker or other object, the court may, as provided in this article, direct a competent surveyor or surveyors to make a survey for the purpose of fixing or establishing the disputed land line or boundaries between coterminous landowners or of locating the position of a line of the government survey or of locating a landmarker or other object.

(b) If the court is of the opinion that such survey should be made it shall enter an order stating the reasons why, in its opinion, such survey should be made and fixing a day on which to hear objections thereof and directing the parties to said action to show cause, if any, why such survey should not be made as proposed in said order.

(Acts 1931, No. 163, p. 239; Code 1940, T. 47, §§5, 6.)