Gray v. Taylor

16 N.M. 171

• Court: New Mexico Supreme Court
• Decided: February 4, 1911
• Docket: No. 1350
• Status: Published

Opinion

ON REHEARING.

PARKER, J.

This case was decided at the last term by a divided court. A rehearing was had at the present term, and the cause resubmit!ed to all of the justices qualified to sit in the case, including Associate Justice Roberts, who has since the former hearing come upon the bench. In the former opinion a quaere was thrown out by the court as to whether the procedure by injunction was proper in cases of this kind, and calling attention to the case of Torres v. Board of County Commissioners, 15 N. M. 703, decided at the last term. In the argument on rehearing, counsel on both sides admit that injunction is a proper remedy in a case of this kind, and for that reason the court withdraws the intimation contained in the former opinion, and assumes for the purpose of this case that the procedure is proper.

In the former decision the court, divided upon the question as to whether the petition for the election was in accordance with the act under which the county commissioners assumed to proceed. Upon this question the court has carefully re-examined the question, and finds no reason to recede from its former position.

All of the other questions in the case were fully examined in a former opinion, and have been re-examined by the court and on this rehearing the court adheres to its former decision.

William H. Pope, C. J., and Edward R. Wright, A. J., dissent. J. R. McEie, A. J., not having heard the argument, did not participate in this decision.