VIGIL v. RICE

No. 7480.

397 P.2d 719 (1964)

74 N.M. 693

Cynthia VIGIL, a minor, by her next friend, Lucian Vigil, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. L.G. RICE, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

December 21, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Modrall, Seymour, Sperling, Roehl & Harris, Frank H. Allen, Jr., Albuquerque, for appellant.

George W. Jones, O.R. Adams, Jr., Albuquerque, for appellee.


CHAVEZ, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding plaintiff-appellee compensatory and punitive damages.

On February 28, 1962, Cynthia Vigil, a minor, by her next friend Lucian Vigil, filed a complaint in two counts against L.G. Rice, Jr. In the first count, plaintiff alleged that Cynthia Vigil was born September 6, 1947, the daughter of Lucian Vigil, and that defendant was a medical doctor; that on October 17, 1960, plaintiff was suffering from an...

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