TORRIS v. DYSART

No. 7162.

380 P.2d 179 (1963)

72 N.M. 26

Joseph A. TORRIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Stella DYSART, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

March 29, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale B. Dilts, Albuquerque, for appellant.

Gilbert, White & Gilbert, Sumner S. Koch, Santa Fe, for appellee.


CARMODY, Justice.

This is an action to rescind a release agreement, for an accounting, and for a declaratory judgment to determine an interest in real property.

Torris (plaintiff below) seeks reversal solely on the basis that he claims to have obtained a community-property interest by reason of his work under a contract of employment with Mrs. Dysart, and that therefore his subsequent release of all interest in mining claims is void because it lacked his wife...

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