REAGAN v. BROWN

No. 5923.

285 P.2d 789 (1955)

59 N.M. 423

Sally REAGAN; John H. Reagan; Albert Leon Reagan; A.A. Reagan, Jr.; C.A. Reagan; Louise R. McCall; George A. May; Alvin R. Morrison; Charley Thomas Morrison; Sue M. Brown; Thomas D. Reagan; Timothy L. Reagan; Lee A. Reagan; Frank S. Reagan; and Abilene Christian College, a corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. J.B. BROWN, Jr.; James Brit Brown, Jr.; J. B. BROWN; A.E. Whitehead; Vallie Whitehead; Thos. E. Boyd; William Stevens; Ruth C. Stevens; Magnolia Petroleum Co., a corporation; Magnolia Petroleum Company, a corporation; United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Co., a corporation; United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company, a corporation; Tide Water Associated Oil Company, a corporation; Tide Water Associated Oil Company, a corporation; Odessa Natural Gasoline Co., a corporation; Trebol Oil Co., a corporation; Warren Oil Corporation, a corporation; The Following Named Defendants by Name, if Living; if Deceased, Their Unknown Heirs: Susie L. Cheney; Rebecca M. King; Bettie C. Dickinson; B.C. Dickinson; Bernice Dickinson; Grant Corbin; Paul L. Davis; Stephen H. Orendorff; Mary A. Orendorff; J.E. Simmons; Beulah H. Simmons; Bruce K. Matlock; Bonnie H. Matlock; E.J. Swanson; R.H. Reed; Hugh W. Ferguson, Jr.; E.G. Rodman; W.E. McLaughlin; Lydia McLaughlin; Reese Cleveland; Rozelle B. Cleveland; W.F. Martin; Lillah Martin; Wm. D. Austin; Mildred M. Austin; H.L. Neeb; Marion C. Neeb; J. Hugh Liedtke; and William O. Liedtke; Unknown Heirs of the Following Named Deceased Persons: James Brit Brown; J.B. Brown; Dollie R. Brown; and Dollie Reagan Brown; and All Unknown Persons Claiming Any Lien, Interest or Title in the Premises Adverse to Plaintiffs.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

July 7, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynell G. Skarda, Clovis, Fred M. Standley, Santa Fe, for appellants.

T.E. Mears, Sr., Portales, James T. Jennings, Hervey, Dow & Hinkle, W.E. Bondurant, Jr., Roswell, for appellees.


McGHEE, Justice.

The plaintiffs-appellants are collateral heirs of Dollie B. Brown, a widow who was killed by her only child, James B. Brown, Jr., and who at the time of her death was the owner of an undivided five-eighths interest in the real property involved in this action, the son having inherited the remaining interest from his father who died on August 20, 1940. The defendants-appellees, other than Brown, claim various...

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