Cienfuegos v. Pacheco

COORS, Justice.

Plaintiffs brought suit in District Court of Santa Fe County for restitution of a parcel of land and for damages, contending that they were entitled to possession and that defendants were in wrongful possession. Plaintiffs are husband and wife; defendants are mother and step-father of the plaintiff husband. Plaintiffs contend the property was community property, purchased by the plaintiffs, which could not be . conveyed by the husband alone to his mother. At the trial there was great conflict in the testimony of the parties, their statements of the facts surrounding the…