Green v. Trumbull

HUDSPETH, Justice.

This is a suit to quiet title to 370 acres of land described by metes and bounds, a part of the Las Vegas grant. The decree went for the interveners and defendants on cross-complaints, and plaintiff brings the case to us for review.

The court found that appellant’s possession was without color of title, a requisite under our statute, 1929 Comp., § 83-119 and section 83-122. Appellant relied upon the unprobated will of his mother as color of title, and assigned the refusal of the court to admit the will in evidence as the point for reversal. This purported will was filed in…