Legal Opinion

Catron v. Laughlin

New Mexico Supreme Court

Decided February 26, 1903No. 820PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal from tbe district court of Bernalillo county, before Hon. N. C. Collier, Judge. Tbe penalty attached to tbe sale of tbe property, or tbe attempted restriction of its sale, was void. Freemont v. U. S., 17 How. 561. One cotenant can not be disseized of any particular part of tbe land unless all tbe others are disseized. Porter v. Hill, 9 Mass. 34; Buswell on Lims. and Adv.

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Appeal from tbe district court of Bernalillo county, before Hon. N. C. Collier, Judge. Tbe penalty attached to tbe sale of tbe property, or tbe attempted restriction of its sale, was void. Freemont v. U. S., 17 How. 561. One cotenant can not be disseized of any particular part of tbe land unless all tbe others are disseized. Porter v. Hill, 9 Mass. 34; Buswell on Lims. and Adv. Pos., sec. 303. . It is held that tbe relinquishment and yielding up by tbe disseizor to one of several tenants in common, after disseizin of all tbe right, seizin, possession and bet-terments, which tbe disseizor bad…

1Per curiam

The bill of complaint in this cause was filed by complainants, T. B. Catron and Nicolas Pino against Saron N. Laughlin, C. H. Gildersleeve, and the unknown heirs of certain deceased persons, praying for the establishment of their estate in a grant of land now known as the Eaton grant, against the adverse claims of the defendants known and unknown. It further prays that complainants’ title be quieted; that a conveyance from defendant Gildersleeve and wife to the defendant Laughlin be declared void and inoperative as against complainants’' estate and undivided interest; that the interest of all…

2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Knight v. United States Land Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1891
  2. United States v. PerchemanSupreme Court of the United States · 1833
  3. Maxwell Land-Grant CaseSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
  4. Wright v. RoseberrySupreme Court of the United States · 1887
  5. Henshaw v. BissellSupreme Court of the United States · 1874

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Smith v. BorradaileNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1923
  2. H. N. D. Land Co. v. SuazoNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1940
  3. Payne Land & Livestock Co. v. ArchuletaDistrict Court, D. New Mexico · 1960
  4. State v. RasconNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 2018

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