Field v. Hudson
New Mexico Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Bernalillo County; Herbert F. Rajmolds, Presiding Judge. A sale cannot be decreed where a partition in kind is legally possible. Sub-Secs. 266, 271, 272, Chap. 107, Laws of 1907; 76 Fed. 58-59; 24 Pac. 164; 3 Pomeroy Eq. Jurisp., Sec. 1390; 81 Pac. St. 123; 99 Am. St. Rep. 220; 57 Am. Dec. 198; 40 La. Ann. 571; 19 Wend. 226; 37 N. C. 607; 5 N. Y. Supp. 749; 41 Conn. p. 12; 6 App. D. C. 484; 72 Pac. 933; 2 Barb. 599; 113 Am.
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Appeal from the District Court, Bernalillo County; Herbert F. Rajmolds, Presiding Judge. A sale cannot be decreed where a partition in kind is legally possible. Sub-Secs. 266, 271, 272, Chap. 107, Laws of 1907; 76 Fed. 58-59; 24 Pac. 164; 3 Pomeroy Eq. Jurisp., Sec. 1390; 81 Pac. St. 123; 99 Am. St. Rep. 220; 57 Am. Dec. 198; 40 La. Ann. 571; 19 Wend. 226; 37 N. C. 607; 5 N. Y. Supp. 749; 41 Conn. p. 12; 6 App. D. C. 484; 72 Pac. 933; 2 Barb. 599; 113 Am. St. Rep. 151; Knapp on Partition, pp. 326-6; 2 Barb. 599; 10 Paige Ch. 470. Burden of showing necessity for sale, rather than a partition…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION.
MECPIEM, District Judge.
It is within the power of a court of equity to decree “owelty of partition” where the property is incapable of exact or fair division. Pomeroy Equity Jur. Sec. 1389; Bispham’s Principles of Equity, Sec. 492; Sawin vs. Osborn, 87 Kans. 828; 126 Pac. 1074, Ann. Cas. 1914 A.
1 In this case there being no appreciable difference in the value of the two lots, the doctrine of owelty of partition has no application. The peculiar value of lot 13 to the plaintiff, did not render that lot intrinsically more valuable than lot -14.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Sawin v. OsbornSupreme Court of Kansas · 1912
3Cited by4 opinions
- Prude v. LewisNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1967
- Field v. HudsonNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1918
- Pino v. SanchezNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1982
- Field v. HudsonNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1915