TARANGO v. PASTRANA

No. 4441.

616 P.2d 440 (1980)

94 N.M. 727

Angelina TARANGO and Santiago Tarango, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Raul PASTRANA, Javier Meneses, J. Rolon, and Providence Memorial Hospital, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

August 5, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tandy L. Hunt, Hunt, Shamas & Currier, Roswell, for plaintiffs-appellants.

K. Gill Shaffer, Deborah S. Davis, Shaffer, Butt, Thornton & Baehr, P.C., Albuquerque, for Pastrana, Meneses and Rolon.

William J. Mounce, Grambling, Mounce, Sims, Galatzan & Harris, El Paso, Tex., for Providence Memorial Hosp.


OPINION

WOOD, Chief Judge.

Does New Mexico have personal jurisdiction over the defendants? This question involves our long-arm statute, the transaction of business, the commission of a tortious act, and due process. The trial court ruled there was a lack of jurisdiction; plaintiffs appeal.

According to the complaint, the three individual defendants performed a tubal ligation upon Angelina, and this surgery was performed at the Hospital. According...

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