Welty v. Western Bank of Las Cruces

OPINION

RANSOM, Justice.

Plaintiffs Hersel and Irene Welty (Welty) appeal from a summary judgment which quieted title to two real properties in Western Bank of Las Cruces (Western Bank), a successor trustee to the Mims Trust which originally sold the properties. The judgment denied Welty a claim for damages for slander of title on the original complaint. Welty filed this appeal. We affirm.

Welty was the purchaser/assignee under two real estate contracts requiring annual payments of $395 due each March 5th and $430 due each October 1st. The contracts were for lots five and six, and for lots eight…