[Download] "Chavez V. Gutierrez" by New Mexico Supreme Court ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Chavez V. Gutierrez
- Author : New Mexico Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 10, 1950
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
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The appellees, plaintiffs below, sued in the District Court of Lincoln County to enjoin the appellant, Annie Gutierrez, one of the defendants below, from using or appropriating waters from the Rio Ruidoso through a certain ditch, designated as the Ambrosio Chavez Community Ditch, for the purpose of irrigating lands described in the amended complaint as parcels VIII and IX, and to quiet title in plaintiffs in and to the separate parcels of land set out in said complaint as belonging to each of them, together with the water rights appurtenant thereto, as against any claim of right, title or interest by the said Annie Gutierrez, and other named defendants. The defendants, Annie Gutierrez and Joe Gutierrez, her son, answered disputing the right of plaintiffs to the injunction prayed for and asserting water rights through said ditch for both parcels VIII and IX described in the complaint. Upon issues thus made up a trial was had resulting in a decree holding the plaintiffs were estopped from questioning the claim of defendant, Annie Gutierrez, to water rights for parcel No. VIII and denying her claim to water rights for parcel No. IX. She was enjoined from taking water through said ditch for parcel No. IX. The defendant, Annie Gutierrez, appealed and the plaintiffs sued out a cross-appeal. The matter is now before us for decision.