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Title: Elfego v. Martinez
Author : Colorado Court of Appeals No. 80CA0087
Release Date : January 27, 1981
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 48 KB

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Opinion by JUDGE COYTE Plaintiff, Elfego Martinez, appeals from a judgment entered in a partition suit. We reverse. Plaintiff and J. Paul Martinez (defendant), brothers, purchased, a 320-acre farm in Alamosa County in 1946 for which they agreed to pay $13,000. They took title to the property as tenants in common. The evidence is clear that they intended to own the property equally, each owning an undivided one-half interest. The property was purchased some 33 years prior to the commencement of this action. There was a three bedroom house on the farm which they occupied with their respective wives. From 1946 to 1956 the two brothers had some outside employment and operated the farm. In 1956 plaintiff moved to California. From that time until the present, defendant and his family have occupied the property and have had exclusive control of it.