Jemez Properties Inc. V. Lucero

Three questions are presented by this appeal: (1) whether the forgery of a deed and the falsification of public records concerning a parcel of land are "exceptional circumstances" which justify the reopening of the judgment in a quiet title action under Rule 60(b)(6), N.M.R. Civ.P., N.M.S.A. 1978; (2) whether a showing that the deed under which the defendant in an ejectment action claims title to the subject property is forged is, by itself, sufficient to support the summary granting of the ejectment; and (3) whether attorneys' fees may be granted against one who has forged a deed so as to require the other party to incur such fees in an action for ejectment where no slander of title was specifically pled.