State Ex Rel. Sanchez v. Reese

• OPINION

MOISE, Justice.

We have heretofore issued our alternative writ of mandamus directing the respondent to withdraw an instruction previously given the clerk of the court presided over by him and to enter an order directing that petitioner’s workmen’s compensation claim be filed without payment of a fee of $3.50. The respondent, having answered, and the case having been fully briefed and argued, it is now ripe for decision.

The question involved is simply whether the fee of $3.50 levied by ch. 20, N.M.S.L. 1964 (1st S.S.) (2 N.M.S.A.1953, Appendix 2.2) must be collected from those filing…