STATE BAR v. GUARDIAN ABSTRACT & TITLE CO.

No. 11213.

575 P.2d 943 (1978)

91 N.M. 434

The STATE BAR of New Mexico, the San Juan County Bar Association, the Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee of the San Juan County Bar Association, John Cain, Joseph A. Palmer and C. C. Koogler, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GUARDIAN ABSTRACT AND TITLE COMPANY, INC., a corporation, and San Juan County Abstract and Title Company, a corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

March 14, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sommer, Lawler & Scheuer, Thomas A. Simons, IV, Santa Fe, for defendants-appellants.

C. Clement Koogler, Aztec, John D. Cain, Flora Vista, Joseph A. Palmer, Farmington, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Thomas S. Jackson, Patricia D. Curne, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae NM Land Title Association & American Land Title Association.


OPINION

EASLEY, Justice.

The State Bar Association, the San Juan County Bar Association, a committee of the San Juan County Bar and three lawyers as plaintiffs-appellees (collectively designated herein as State Bar) brought this suit to enjoin Guardian Abstract & Title Company, Inc. and San Juan County Abstract and Title Company, defendants-appellants (hereinafter Guardian Abstract) from engaging in the unauthorized practice of law. The District Court...

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