Ortega v. Ortega

OPINION OF THE COURT

WATSON, J.

Tomas Ortega, plaintiff below, sued the First National Bank of Albuquerque, claiming that a certain deposit standing in the name of Pablita P. Ortega, his wife, was community property, and that he had, in law, the right to control it. Pablita P. Ortega intervened, claiming the deposit as her separate property, the proceeds of sheep set apart to her by order of a court of record in Arizona, in a divorce suit there pending, pursuant to a stipulation between the parties. As between husband and wife, _the issues were resolved in favor of the latter, and the former…