Duncan v. Brown

Citations

• 18 N.M. 579
• 139 P. 140

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS (BY THE COURT)</p> <p>1. Judicial decisions, affecting title to real estate, presumptively acquired in reliance upon such decisions, should not be disturbed or departed from except for the most cogent reasons; doubts as to the soundness of such decisions, without other and graver considerations, do not warrant a departure. '</p> <p>P. 585</p> <p>2. Whenever a question fairly arises in the course of a trial, and there is a distinct decision of such question, the ruling of the court in respect thereto cannot be called mere dictum.</p> <p>P. 588</p>