Jones v. Rocky Cliff Coal Mining Co.
New Mexico Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, McKinley County; Raynolds, Judge. Suit by Annie A. Jones against the Rocky Cliff' Coal Mining Company and others. Judgment for' plaintiff, and defendant named appeals. STATEMENT OF THE CASE. This is a suit to quiet title in statutory form, brought by Annie A. Jones, appellee, against the appellant, Rocky Cliff Coal Mining Company, and others. The defendants with the exception of appellant made default.
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Appeal from District Court, McKinley County; Raynolds, Judge. Suit by Annie A. Jones against the Rocky Cliff' Coal Mining Company and others. Judgment for' plaintiff, and defendant named appeals. STATEMENT OF THE CASE. This is a suit to quiet title in statutory form, brought by Annie A. Jones, appellee, against the appellant, Rocky Cliff Coal Mining Company, and others. The defendants with the exception of appellant made default. Appellant answered denying-title in appellee, asserting title in appellant, and praying that title be quieted in it. The case was, tried to the court, a judgment…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF TPIE COURT.
BRICE, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] Many assignments of error are advanced in this court, but it will be unnecessary to consider them separately. If there was error in the admission of testimony, -it was harmless, as will be seen from the view we take of the case.
At the time the quitclaim deed was made to ap-pellee, the title was in the grantors named in that deed, for until some name was inserted as grantee in the original deed it was ineffective as a conveyance.
“The deed in blank passed no interest, for it had no grantee. The blank intended for…
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