Atlantic Refining Company v. Jones

SADLER, Justice.

This appeal is prosecuted by Emily Tate Jones from a judgment rendered against her by the district court of Lea County, New Mexico, in a suit to quiet title to certain oil and gas leasehold interests on land in Lea County, New Mexico.

' The properties in which the defendant named claimed a community interest .by virtue of being the wife of William U. Tate at the time he acquired an interest in them are' described in the trial court’s findings and decree. They are undivided fractional mineral interests, very small in extent, neither their size nor the land in which they exist…