Thompson v. Maxwell Land Grant & Ry. Co.

The facts in this case are substantially as follows:

On the first day of August, 1870, the Maxwell Land Grant & Railway Company, Lucien B. Maxwell, and Luz B. Maxwell, his wife, filed in the district court of Colfax county their bill in equity against Guadalupe Thompson and George W. Thompson, her husband, and Charles Bent, Juliano Bent, and Alberto Silas Bent, three infant children of the said Guadalupe Thompson, by Alfred Bent, her former husband.

An amended bill was filed on the eleventh day of January, 1873. This amended bill states that in 1841 the republic of Mexico granted certain lands…