Originally posted by: DrPizza
Stakes can be pulled out, although it is not legal in most states to remove survey markers, it happens.
Here's another one, from Ohio, not Illinois; but as close as the states are, I'd think their laws regarding survey markers would be similar.
http://community.lawyers.com/m...dstart=900&threadend=0
(You'll have to go through the thread.)
Since you'd need proof, you could simply have a savvy policeman ask them if they pulled them out because they were in the wrong place. If the officer is decently intelligent, he can twist the conversation to put them on the spot where they either have to admit the property lines were correct, else that they pulled up the stakes. If so, you could small claimserize them to get them to pay to have the stakes replaced in the correct spot. (there's a word you won't see often.)
edit: wait a second. You're not trying to pull our legs, are you? Surveyors often (at least around here) use rebar for marking corners of property. The ground can be frozen and they can still pound that rebar in. AND, it ain't coming out, least not til spring, or not without pulling it with something.