Snyder v. Board of Education
New Mexico Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of Bernalillo County, Second Judicial District. Statement of the case by the court. The appellant brought suit in the court below to recover from the appellee corporation three hundred dollars. Appellant alleges that he was employed to perform legal services; that he rendered services to the value of three hundred dollars and that the appellee promised to pay him, but failed and refused to do so.
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Appeal from the District Court of Bernalillo County, Second Judicial District. Statement of the case by the court. The appellant brought suit in the court below to recover from the appellee corporation three hundred dollars. Appellant alleges that he was employed to perform legal services; that he rendered services to the value of three hundred dollars and that the appellee promised to pay him, but failed and refused to do so. The answer of the appellee in its first paragraph, denied the employment of Snyder, denied indebtedness, and also denied promise to pay as alleged in the complaint. In…
1Opinion of the CourtMcFIE, J.
If, upon the face of the pleadings, it is manifest that the appellant was not entitled to recover, there can be no reversible error in this case, and it is not necessary for the court to consider the refinements of pleading nor the right to a trial by jury, suggested by appellant in his assignments of error.
School board wruing*Swhenn The appellant sues as an individual untrammeled with the duties and responsibilities of the official relations he sustained to the board of education of which he was member; the defendant, therefore, had a right under the code to •set up as new matter the…
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