Candelaria v. Vallejos
New Mexico Supreme Court
Appeal from the district court of Dona Ana county, before Frank W. Parker, Associate Justice. No authorities cited except Territorial statutes. Community ditches under the New Mexico statutes are involuntary quasi corporations; public in nature and use. 15 Eng. & A. M. Ene. of Law, (1st Ed.) p. 955; 1 Beach on Public Corporations, Secs. 3 and 4; Eliott on Municipal Corporations, Secs. 3-4-71 and 72. Such corporations are not liabe for torts.
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Appeal from the district court of Dona Ana county, before Frank W. Parker, Associate Justice. No authorities cited except Territorial statutes. Community ditches under the New Mexico statutes are involuntary quasi corporations; public in nature and use. 15 Eng. & A. M. Ene. of Law, (1st Ed.) p. 955; 1 Beach on Public Corporations, Secs. 3 and 4; Eliott on Municipal Corporations, Secs. 3-4-71 and 72. Such corporations are not liabe for torts. Elmore v. Drainage Commissioners, 135 111. 260; 1 Beach on Public Corporations. An irreparable injury is not necessarily sncli an injury as is beyond the…
1Dissent
MANN, J.—
(Dissenting.) I cannot concur in the result attained by the majority of this court expressed in the exhaustive opinion written by Mr. Justice Pope, because I believe that such a result is arrived at through a mistaken conception of the relations of the parties constituting a community ditch and an erroneous construction of the laws governing such ditches. I believe that if such construction is placed upon the acequia laws of the Territory, evil consequences will follow, in that a minority, even of one person, may control the reasonable wishes of the majority, cause unnecessary and…
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