HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW MEXICO v. MONTOYA

No. 7559.

393 P.2d 21 (1964)

74 N.M. 285

The HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW MEXICO, a New Mexico nonprofit corporation, Relator, v. The Honorable Samuel Z. MONTOYA, Judge of the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State of New Mexico, Respondent.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

June 8, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Watson & Watson, Santa Fe, for relator.

Catron & Catron, Santa Fe, for respondent.


CARMODY, Justice.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition, which seeks to prevent the respondent district judge from signing an order directing the clerk of the district court to turn over possession of certain documents which had been delivered to her by relator at the time it filed a suit claiming ownership thereof.

This is the second time that we have been called upon in original proceedings to resolve problems involving the same documents. The opinion...

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