GARCIA v. MIDDLE RIO GRANDE CONSERVANCY DIST

No. 5790.

664 P.2d 1000 (1983)

99 N.M. 802

Kathleen Mary GARCIA, Individually and as Mother and Next Friend of Alice Irene Garcia and Jerry Richard Garcia, minors, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MIDDLE RIO GRANDE CONSERVANCY DISTRICT and American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

Certiorari Denied June 2, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Ransom, P.A., Terry Word, Albuquerque, for plaintiff-appellee.

Arthur O. Beach, Kim E. Kaufman, Keleher & McLeod, P.A., Albuquerque, for defendants-appellants.


OPINION

DONNELLY, Judge.

The defendants Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (District) and its insurer, American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company (American), appeal from a judgment awarding workmen's compensation benefits to plaintiff, and her two minor children.

Defendants have raised five issues on appeal: (1) claim of trial court error in awarding workmen's compensation benefits because plaintiff's settlement with a third-party tortfeasor...

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