Amethyst Land Co., Inc. v. Terhune

OPINION

CHÁVEZ, Justice.

{1} This case involves a dispute between two adjoining landowners over an easement. In 2003, Respondent Amethyst Land Company (Amethyst) acquired a quitclaim deed to an undeveloped twenty-two-acre parcel (the 22-acre parcel) in the Santa Fe foothills. Amethyst promptly searched the county property record and incorporated all of the documents concerning the property into corrected deeds. One of the documents it found and incorporated in the corrected deeds was an Extinguishment Agreement purporting to terminate an easement on Tract 3 of adjoining property that benefitted…