SANTA FE NAT. BANK v. GALT

No. 4079.

607 P.2d 649 (1979)

94 N.M. 111

SANTA FE NATIONAL BANK, as Conservator of the Estate of Zachariah Zebadee Lee Wilson, an infant, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charles E. GALT, Jr., M.D., Catherine Armstrong, M.D., and Carlsbad Regional Medical Center, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

Writ of Certiorari Denied December 14, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Mitchell, Mitchell, Alley & Rubin, Santa Fe, for appellant.

Bob F. Turner, Atwood, Malone, Mann & Cooter, James L. Bruin, Sanders, Bruin & Baldock, Roswell, Kenneth R. Brandt, Miller, Stratvert, Torgerson & Brandt, Albuquerque, for appellees.

Matias A. Zamora, Santa Fe, E. Robert (Bob) Wallach, San Francisco, Cal., Arturo G. Ortega, Ortega & Snead, Albuquerque, for amici curiae.


OPINION

WOOD, Chief Judge.

Zachariah was born in February, 1976. Although the record before us does not contain the order, it is undisputed that the Santa Fe District Court, in Probate Cause 78-92, appointed the plaintiff Bank as Zachariah's conservator in November, 1978. Either the same day, or shortly after the conservatorship order (the District Court filing stamps cannot be read), the Bank, as conservator, filed a complaint for damages against the defendants...

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