SALAZAR v. TOWN OF BERNALILLO

No. 6098.

307 P.2d 186 (1956)

62 N.M. 199

Ignacio SALAZAR, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TOWN OF BERNALILLO, a Municipal Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

December 21, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catron & Catron, Santa Fe, for appellant.

Lorenzo A. Chavez, Arturo G. Ortega, Albuquerque, for appellee.


McGHEE, Justice.

The defendant, Town of Bernalillo, appeals from a judgment rendered against it in favor of the plaintiff, Ignacio Salazar, for $8,000, following trial before a jury.

The decisive question is whether the town is liable in damages for an unusually violent assault committed upon the plaintiff by a deputy marshal of the town acting upon orders of its mayor, by reason of which plaintiff lost the sight of his right eye and suffered other injuries...

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