Williams v. Howell

OPINION

STOWERS, Justice.

We have granted certiorari to consider whether on a claim for adverse possession under color of title, extrinsic evidence, not referred to or identified in the deed, is admissible to cure an inadequacy in the deed description.

Plaintiffs-petitioners, H.R. Williams and Rose Lee Williams, initiated this lawsuit in 1986 to quiet title to certain real property located in Winston (formerly the Town of Fairview), Sierra County, New Mexico, and referred to as the Winston Store property. The district court quieted title to the property in the petitioners against the adverse…