Derham v. Hill

In 1892, there was made and filed for record, in Mesa County, a plat of more than two hundred acres of land designated as The Grand. Junction Orchard Mesa Land Company’s Orchard Subdivision. The plat showed the land subdivided into numbered tracts or lots of about ten acres each, with various portions, forty feet wide, marked as roads. The particular lots, with which this lawsuit has to do, appeared on the plat as follows:

One Mrs. Powers became the owner of Lots 28 and 29, by deed, wherein the land was described as Lots 28 and 29 in the subdivision.^ In May, 1905, she made a deed to one…