FOSTER v. LUCE

No. 13126.

850 P.2d 1034 (1993)

115 N.M.App. 331

Johnny Y. FOSTER, a/k/a Johnny Foster, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bill LUCE and Sylvia Luce, Individually, and d/b/a Bill Luce Livestock, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

March 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Douglas Moeller, Farmington, for defendants-appellants.

John R. Westerman, Law Offices of John R. Westerman, Chartered, Farmington, for plaintiff-appellee.


OPINION

DONNELLY, Judge.

Defendants appeal from a judgment awarding Plaintiff compensatory and punitive damages in a tort action which grew out of their purchase of cattle on the Navajo Indian Reservation. We discuss: (1) whether the district court had jurisdiction over a tort claim filed by Plaintiff, a Navajo Indian, against Defendants for alleged wrongful acts which occurred, in part, on the Navajo Indian Reservation; (2) whether the district court...

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