Jones v. Rocky Cliff Coal Mining Co.
New Mexico Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, McKinley County; Raynolds, Judge. Suit by Annie A. Jones against the Rocky Cliff Coal Mining Company and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant named appeals. STATEMENT OF THE. CASE, This is a suit to quiet title in statutory form brought by Annie A. Jones, appellee, against the appellant, Rocky Cliff Coal Mining Company, and others. The defendants with the exception of appellant made default.
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Appeal from District Court, McKinley County; Raynolds, Judge. Suit by Annie A. Jones against the Rocky Cliff Coal Mining Company and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant named appeals. STATEMENT OF THE. CASE, This is a suit to quiet title in statutory form brought by Annie A. Jones, appellee, against the appellant, Rocky Cliff Coal Mining Company, and others. The defendants with the exception of appellant made default. Appellant answered denying title in appellee, asserting title in appellant, and praying that title be quieted in it. The case was tried to the court, a judgment…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COUET.
BRICE, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). This is a companion ca’se to cause No. 2405 (27 N. M. 41), between the same parties and decided at this term of the court.
At the time Canavan exhibited the deed to appel-lee, it had been executed by the grantors named therein, but was blank as to grantee. This was in 1903. It next appears at the trial of this case many years later with the name of appellant written in as grantee. In its original state this deed was ineffectual as a conveyance (Jones v. R. C. Coal M. Co. et al., supra), and the burden was on…
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