Legal Opinion
Townsend v. State Ex Rel. State Highway Department
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided February 9, 1994No. 20861PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RANSOM, Chief Justice.
Henry Townsend, as trustee of the Henry and Sylvia Townsend Revocable Trust, appeals from an order dismissing his complaint against the State Highway Department and the Commissioner of Public Lands for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. Townsend sought a declaratory judgment and damages for inverse condemnation, trespass, and conversion. The trial court held that Townsend’s trespass and conversion claims were barred by the Tort Claims Act, NMSA 1978, §§ 41-4-1 to -27 (Repl.Pamp.1989), and that his inverse condemnation claim was barred by…
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