Madrid v. Borrego

COMPTON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in ejectment entered following trial before the court without a jury. The plaintiffs below are the appellants here. The facts fairly deducible when the trial court sustained a motion to dismiss interposed as the plaintiffs rested will be stated.

On September 27, 1937, a patent from the United States of America to Nestora Madrid was issued and delivered to the grantee named in it covering the lands involved in this action. At the time the patentee resided on the premises with her two sons Fortunato Madrid and Canuto Madrid. They continued to…