Legal Opinion

Baca v. Anaya

New Mexico Supreme Court

Decided February 25, 1908No. 1101PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from the District Court for Bernalillo County before Benjamin S. Baker, Associate Justice. As to jurisdiction of the court to entertain petition of intervention. Compiled Laws, sees. 3179-3183; 8 and 9 Will., 3, c. 31; N. Y. Code secs. 1538, 1540, 1543, 1544; 3 Starr & Curtis Ann. Stat., 111., ch. 106, secs. 2912 et seq.; 2 R. S. Mo. 1899, sees. 7132, 7134, 7135, 7137, 7145; Cal. Civil Code, secs. 752, 759; Ind. Stat. vol.

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Appeal from the District Court for Bernalillo County before Benjamin S. Baker, Associate Justice. As to jurisdiction of the court to entertain petition of intervention. Compiled Laws, sees. 3179-3183; 8 and 9 Will., 3, c. 31; N. Y. Code secs. 1538, 1540, 1543, 1544; 3 Starr & Curtis Ann. Stat., 111., ch. 106, secs. 2912 et seq.; 2 R. S. Mo. 1899, sees. 7132, 7134, 7135, 7137, 7145; Cal. Civil Code, secs. 752, 759; Ind. Stat. vol. II, p. 361, secs. 1, 5; Clapp v. Bronagham, 9 Cow. 530, 569; Wilkins v. Wilkins, 1 John., ch. 115; Phelps v. Green, 3 John., ch. 304; Curran v. Spraull, 10 Grat.…

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE CO-HRT.

POPE, J.

1 2 (After making the foregoing -statement). Lid the trial court err in dismissing the intervention? This must be determined primarily by the terms of our partition statute. This latter provides (Coni]). Laws 1897, Sec. 3179) that "when any lands, tenements or hereditaments shall be owned in joint tenancy, tenancy in common or coparcenary, whether the right' or title be derived, by donation, grant, purchase- devise or descent, it shall be lawful for any one or more of the persons interested, whether they be in possession or not, to present their petition in…

2Cases cited30 opinions

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  3. Holland v. ChallenSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
  4. Basey v. GallagherSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
  5. Smith v. GaleSupreme Court of the United States · 1892

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