Mutual Investment & Agency Co. v. Albuquerque Farm & Ranch Land Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT

WATSON, J.

Mutual Investment & Agency Company, a corporation, relying upon an assessment, sale, and deed, for 1908 taxes, assessed upon the Pajarita grant, 28,700 acres, owners unknown, and so conveyed by Bernalillo County, and Upon mesne conveyances, claimed the right of possession of some 800 acres of said grant, and sued Albuquerque Farm & Ranch Land Company, a corporation, to recover it. The defendant claimed payment of the 1908 taxes upon the lands in question under several assessments in parcels.

The only issue submitted to the jury was whether the taxes for 1908 had…