Legal Opinion
Durand v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy Dist.
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided August 13, 1941No. 4613PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRICE, Chief Justice.
This is an action for a declaratory judgment, and the question is whether the act of the New Mexico legislature, approved October 3, 1940, hereinafter called “The Relief Act,” is unconstitutional.
The legislature of 1923 enacted Ch. 140 entitled: “An Act to Provide for the Organization of Conservancy Districts for the Purpose of Co-operating With the Government of the United States Under the Terms of the Federal Reclamation Law and Other Federal Laws, and to Define the Purposes and Powers Thereof,”'for which was substituted Ch. 45, N.M.L.1927, entitled: “An Act to Provide…
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