§35-3-21. Order for survey on motion of party - Filing; notice to show cause; continuance.

(a) Any party to such action may file a motion therein stating the reasons why such a survey should be made and praying that the court appoint a competent surveyor or surveyors to make such survey; and, upon presenting said motion to the judge of the court he shall enter an order fixing a day on which the same shall be heard and directing the other parties to said action to show cause, if any, why such survey should not be made as prayed in said motion.

(b) The notice to show cause why such survey should not be made shall be given by the service of a copy of the order of the court, relative thereto when made by the court without application of a party to said action, or, when based on a motion by a party to said action, then by service of a copy of such motion and the order of the court on said motion on the party or his attorney of record as directed by the court in its order. Such notice shall be for not less than 10 days. The court may continue such hearing from time to time as in its opinion is proper.

(Acts 1931, No. 163, p. 239; Code 1940, T. 47, §§7, 8.)