Mounsey v. Stahl

McGHEE, Justice.

This case involves the ownership of mineral' interests in Lea County, New Mexico, acquired by John J. Eisner, while married, and sold to the defendant Stahl by mineral deed in which Eisner’s wife did not join.

Eisner resided in the State of New York during all of the time material to this case, where he operated a business of buying and selling mineral interests and oil and gas leases; but he also operated such a business in Houston, Texas, apparently during the fifteen years, he operated the New York office.

Many years after the execution and delivery of the deed to Stahl, the…