Turner v. Sanchez

BICKLEY, Justice.

The jury at the trial of this ejectment suit was instructed to find a verdict for the plaintiff, and from the judgment thereupon entered in the district court, defendant appeals.

The plaintiff’s right to the possession of the lands in dispute was that of a purchaser at a tax sale.

The defendant’s grounds of resistance to that right were that the description contained in the tax sale certificate and in the tax deed was insufficient to identify the land, and that the County Treasurer of Dona Ana County, N. M., who at the time of the sale and at the time of the issuance of the tax…