TWIN FORKS RANCH, INC. v. BROOKS

No. 18092.

964 P.2d 838 (1998)

125 N.M. 674

1998-NMCA-129

TWIN FORKS RANCH, INC., a New Mexico Corporation, and Twin Forks Domestic Water Consumers Association, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Robert B. BROOKS and Janice K. Brooks, his wife; Benjamin F. Brooks and Rosemary Brooks, his wife, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

Certiorari Denied September 9, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jefferson R. Rhodes, Burroughs & Rhodes, Alamogordo, Anthony F. Avallone, Law Systems of Las Cruces, P.A., Las Cruces, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

A.J. Olsen, Henninghausen, Olsen & Stevens, LLP, Roswell, for Defendants-Appellants.


OPINION

FLORES, Judge.

{1} This is a dispute over the ownership of water rights appurtenant to a fifteen acre tract of land sold to Robert B. Brooks and his family (the Brooks) by Twin Forks Ranch, Inc. (Twin Forks). The trial court found and concluded that a mutual mistake occurred in the drafting of the real estate contracts and deeds arising out of the land sale, such that the writings did not properly convey six water taps into the community water system...

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