Legal Opinion
Coulter v. Gough
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided May 5, 1969No. 8588PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION NOBLE, Chief Justice.
Defendants, Mary Etta Killingsworth (now deceased), Mar Jo Smith Gough, and Union Oil Company of California, have appealed from a judgment quieting the title in plaintiffs to certain mineral interests in Lea County. The decree was a summary judgment based upon the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, admissions, affidavits and abstracts of title.
Plaintiffs’ claim to title to the minerals is based upon a tax deed and upon an earlier suit to quiet title. The defendants (appellants) trace their claim of ownership to mineral deeds from the patentee. Our…
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