Frank A. Hubbell Co. v. Curtis

BRICE, Justice.

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment in favor of appellant for $2,361.12 for the value of improvements placed on lands under a saline lease from the state of New Mexico by appellant while he or his predecessors in title were lessees from the state. The land was subsequently leased to appellee Curtis by the appellee commissioner of public lands.

This proceeding originated in the state land office. The appellant had been lessee from the state of certain saline lands which were subsequently leased to the ap-pellee Curtis. The lease, under which appellant had held the land,…