Corman v. Cree

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

Gerald Edward Cree brought this suit against R. W. Corman and Lulu K. Cor-man to quiet the title to a tract of land situated in Lincoln County, New Mexico, under the provisions of Section 105-2001, N.M.Supp.1938. In his complaint plaintiff alleged that the defendants “make some claim adverse to the plaintiff’s * * * title and estate in and to said land.”

In her answer Lulu K. Corman denied the jurisdictional facts, denied plaintiff’s claim of title, and alleged “that she does not, and never had made any claim to” the land. She prayed for dismissal of the action and for…