Costilla Estates Development Co. v. Mascarenas

OPINION OF THE COURT

WATSON, J.

Appellant sued appellee, on November 16, 1915, in ejectment, for two small parcels of land situated within the New Mexico portion of the Sangre de Cristo Grant. Appellee, by answer, denied the allegations of the complaint, set up title in himself by adverse possession, and prayed that such title be quieted as against appellant’s adverse claims. Appellant, by reply, denied the affirmative allegations of the answer, and, by specific allegations, set up a certain judgment rendered in the district 'court of Santa Fe county, November 17, 1905, on change of venue from…