CARPER v. BOARD OF COUNTY COM'RS OF EDDY COUNTY

No. 5547.

255 P.2d 673 (1953)

57 N.M. 137

CARPER et al. v. BOARD OF COUNTY COM'RS OF EDDY COUNTY et al.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

April 6, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

N. Randolph Reese, Hobbs, for appellants.

Neil B. Watson, William M. Siegenthaler and Donald S. Bush, Artesia, for appellees.


COORS, Justice.

The important question for determination in this case is whether a petition presented to the Board of Commissioners of Eddy County to call an election to obtain necessary authorization from the voters for constructing two separate hospitals with isolation wards, pursuant to Laws 1947, Chapter 148, was legally sufficient, or whether it was fatally defective on the ground that it combines two separate propositions into one question.

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