Eager v. Belmore

BRICE, Chief Justice.

This is an action brought by plaintiffs (appellees) to quiet title to certain real estate. The material facts found by the court are substantially -as follows:

In 1907 D. A. Belmore was the owner of lots 8, 9 and 10 in Block 13 of the Original Townsite of the city of Tucumcari, New Mexico. On January 14, 1939 D. A. Belmore, a single man, executed a quitclaim deed, which purported to convey to C. H. Hittson the grantor’s interest in the above described lots 9 and 10. D. A. Belmore died testate on March 13, 1939, having devised to his son, the plaintiff, all of the real…