Amkco, Ltd., Co. v. Welborn

OPINION

DONNELLY, J.

{1} Appellees, Amkco, Ltd., Co., Keeling Petroleum, Inc. and Keeling Distributing, Inc., erected a $1,250,000 truck stop, store, and travel center in Hobbs, New Mexico. After the building and related facilities were constructed, Appellees discovered that a portion of the complex was built on land owned by Appellant and that it encroached a distance of fifty-eight feet onto the neighboring property.

{2} The trial court entered a judgment ordering Appellant to convey a fifty-eight-foot strip of property on which the encroachment was located to Appellees in return for the sum…