STATE v. VIGIL

No. 7509.

398 P.2d 987 (1965)

74 N.M. 766

STATE of New Mexico ex rel. SUN COMPANY, Inc., and Sun Company, Inc., Individually, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Cipriano VIGIL, Mayor of the Village of Espanola, C. L. Hunter, Tomas Vigil, Luis Quintana, and Bernabe Jacquez, Members of the Village Council of the Village of Espanola, Dolores Haas, Village Clerk of the Village of Espanola, and the Village of Espanola, a municipal corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

February 1, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bigbee & Byrd, Zerne P. Haning, III, Santa Fe, for defendants-appellants.

Smith, Kiker & Ransom, Albuquerque, for plaintiffs-appellees.


CARMODY, Chief Justice.

The Village of Espanola appeals from a judgment entered by the district court, making absolute a writ of mandamus, which, in effect, requires the village to publish ordinances and other notices required by law in two separate newspapers.

Although three questions are raised on appeal, we find it necessary to only reach one, viz., whether the word "published" as used in § 14-25-7, N.M.S.A. 1953, is synonymous with the word "printed...

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