Legal Opinion
Cruz v. FTS Construction, Inc.
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided June 29, 2006No. 25,708PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PICKARD, Judge.
{1} This ease involves two lawsuits — one that is presently pending before the district court on de novo appeal from the magistrate court and one (the action on appeal here) that was originally filed in the district court. We examine a doctrine most recently articulated in Valdez v. Ballenger, 91 N.M. 785, 786, 581 P.2d 1280, 1281 (1978), which we term “priority jurisdiction.” The purpose of the doctrine is to prevent the same lawsuit from being litigated twice. We hold that under the circumstances of this ease, the district court did not err in dismissing Plaintiffs…
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