Orman v. Van Arsdell
New Mexico Supreme Court
Error to the district court of Santa Fe county before John R. McFie, Associate Judge. Article Í4 of the Bill of Rights, adopted by the Legislature' of New Mexico; July 12, 1851, declares, among other things, that “no retroactive law, or any law impairing the obligation of contracts shall be made.”
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Error to the district court of Santa Fe county before John R. McFie, Associate Judge. Article Í4 of the Bill of Rights, adopted by the Legislature' of New Mexico; July 12, 1851, declares, among other things, that “no retroactive law, or any law impairing the obligation of contracts shall be made.” This principle has been embodied in the Compiled Laws of 1865, chapter 85; Compiled Laws of 1884, sections 2584, etc.; Compiled Laws of 1897, sections 3756-3771-3779. Clinton v. Englebrecht, 13 Wall. 434, at pp. 445, 446; Carnon v. United States, 171 U. S. 277, at pp.. 286, 287; 1 American…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT.
PARKER, J.
James L. Van Arsdell and Philip J. Barber began September 6, 1901, in the district court for Santa Fe county an action at law against James B. Orman for the recovery of the amount of a judgment alleged to have been given against him in that court in 1885 at the suit of Adam J. Hager, and afterwards affirmed by judgment of this court, January 20, 1886, and assigned, August 6, 1888, to the said Van Arsdell and Barber. The plaintiff afterwards filed an amended complaint. An answer to the amended complaint was interposed November 4, 1901, setting up the statute of…
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