Legal Opinion

Baker v. Hansen

New Mexico Supreme Court

Decided May 20, 1968No. 8513Published

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

The main question presented on appeal is whether the district court erred in holding that appellees had acquired by prescription a right of way over the appellants’ land, being a portion of exception 27, private claim 19, parcel 2, and exception 26, private claim 18, parcel 2 of San Juan Pueblo Grant, situated between the Espanola-Taos Highway on the west and the Santa Cruz-San Juan Road on the east in Rio Arriba County.

Appellants are the owners of the east portion of the tract across which El Llano Irrigation Ditch flows from north to south. Appellees, separately, are…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Hester v. SawyersNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1937
  2. Wilson v. WilliamsNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1939
  3. Batson v. SmithMississippi Supreme Court · 1951
  4. Archibeck v. MongielloNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1954
  5. Woo v. MartzCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1952

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