Legal Opinion
Lerma ex rel. Lerma v. State Highway Department
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided June 23, 1994No. 20506PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RANSOM, Justice.
Emilio S. Lerma, as next friend of his daughter Dawn Marie Lerma, appealed to the Court of Appeals from the trial court’s entry of summary judgment dismissing Lerma’s personal injury action against the State Highway Department. In an unpublished opinion, the Court of Appeals reversed. We issued a writ of certiorari to review two issues: (1) whether the Court of Appeals erred by imposing a common-law duty upon the Department to maintain a fence for the protection of pedestrians; and (2) whether, as a matter of law, Dawn’s intentional act of crossing the interstate was…
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