Waltom v. City of Portales

BICKLEY, Justice.

Plaintiff sued to quiet title to real estate, claiming title thereto by virtue of a tax deed issued under the provisions of chapter 27, L.1934, Sp.Sess. The defendant, City of Portales, asserted a sewer assessment lien created in 1926, and a paving lien created in 1930. The decree of the district court held that the tax deed extinguished the paving lien but not the sewer lien; the disparity in the conclusions being due to the view that the paving lien was created subsequent to a supposed repeal of the statute that saved the sewer lien. Whether the learned judge below was…