Sawyer v. Barton

SADLER, Justice.

The question involved on this appeal is whether the appellee, who was nlaintifif below, purchased a mineral interest in certain land in Lea County, New Mexico, charged with notice that the defendant-appellant was owner of such interest by virtue of an unrecorded deed in the latter’s chain of title, admittedly good, if plaintiff had notice of the deed mentioned.

The interest in controversy is an undivided three-sixteenths in the oil and gas and all other minerals in and under the Northeast quarter (NE14) of Section 23, Township 29 South, Range 36 East, containing 160 acres, more…