State v. Thomson

OPINION

CARMODY, Justice.

The defendants appeal from the trial court’s decree quieting title in the State. Although the case was initially instituted by the Capitol Building Improvement Commission, the State itself has been substituted as the proper party, appellee.

The trial was upon stipulated facts, and, inasmuch as the appellants (whom we will hereafter refer to as “Thomson”) make divergent attacks upon the findings made by the court, we will summarize the stipulated facts insofar as they are necessary for decision, rather than refer to the findings themselves.

The New Mexico Penitentiary was…