BLANCETT v. BLANCETT

No. 28,416.

102 P.3d 640 (2004)

136 N.M. 573

2004-NMSC-038

Richard M. BLANCETT, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Linn Richard BLANCETT, Defendant-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

November 22, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Swaim, Schrandt & Davidson, P.C., Donald E. Swaim, Judith D. Schrandt, Albuquerque, NM, for Petitioner.

Miller Stratvert, P.A., Alice Tomlinson Lorenz, Albuquerque, NM, Seth V. Bingham, Farmington, NM, for Respondent.


OPINION

CHÁVEZ, Justice.

{1} The facts of this case raise a question about whether extrinsic evidence may be admitted to prove a grantor's intent in physically delivering an unambiguous deed to a grantee. Defendant-Petitioner Linn Blancett ("Linn") appeals from an order rescinding and nullifying two deeds that his father, Plaintiff-Respondent Richard Blancett ("Richard"), physically delivered to Linn's wife in 1993. In a memorandum opinion upholding...

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