Rio Costilla Cooperative Livestock Ass'n v. W. S. Ranch Co.

OPINION

GEORGE L. REESE, Jr., District Judge.

Rio Costilla Cooperative Livestock Association sued W. S. Ranch Company in the District Court of Taos County, New Mexico, alleging that it was the owner in fee simple, by virtue of a tax deed, of a tract of land in Taos County, New Mexico, known as the Costilla Reservoir; that the property was completely surrounded by lands owned by the defendant, except for a public roadway traversing defendant’s land to said reservoir and beyond; that the defendant had wrongfully attempted to prevent the free and uninhibited use of said roadway and that no other…