Kreigh v. State Bank of Alamogordo

The appellees, plaintiffs 'below, filed a complaint in ordinary form to quiet title to a small piece of real estate in the town of Alamogordo. The appellant, defendant at the trial, answered setting up ownership of the property by virtue of a tax deed to it issued pursuant to a certain tax sale certificate evidencing a sale to Otero county for delinquency in payment of 1919 taxes, and subsequent assignment thereof to defendant. In a reply the appellees admitted the issuance of the tax deed which was copied at length in appellant’s answer, but asserted divers and sundry reasons for its…