MENDENHALL v. VANDEVENTER

No. 6073.

299 P.2d 457 (1956)

61 N.M. 277

Mildred Wallene MENDENHALL and Stanley Mendenhall, her husband, Appellants, v. H. P. VANDEVENTER, d/b/a Yellow-Checker Cab Company, Appellee.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

June 27, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph L. Smith, Henry A. Kiker, Jr., Albuquerque, Waldo Spiess, Las Vegas, for appellants.

Iden & Johnson, Richard G. Cooper, Albuquerque, for appellee.


LUJAN, Justice.

Appellants, as plaintiffs, sued appellee for $28,575, for personal injuries and property damages, alleged to have been caused by a collision between the automobiles of appellants and appellee, and for medical and hospital expenses. Appellee answered by a general denial, contributory negligence, and set up a release, executed by appellants one month and nine days after the collision, in which appellants acknowledged...

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