SAWYER v. BARTON

No. 5277.

236 P.2d 77 (1951)

55 N.M. 479

SAWYER v. BARTON.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Rehearing Denied October 15, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey, Dow & Hinkle, Roswell, for appellant.

G.T. Hanners, Hanners & Ward, Lovington, for appellee.


SADLER, Justice.

The question involved on this appeal is whether the appellee, who was plaintiff 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...

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