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  "id": 1559112,
  "name": "BOARD OF COM'RS OF MORA COUNTY et al. v. KEYES",
  "name_abbreviation": "Board of Com'rs v. Keyes",
  "decision_date": "1934-05-14",
  "docket_number": "No. 3884",
  "first_page": "337",
  "last_page": "338",
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      "cite": "38 N.M. 337"
    },
    {
      "type": "parallel",
      "cite": "32 P.2d 1017"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.M.",
    "id": 8835,
    "name": "Supreme Court of New Mexico"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 52,
    "name_long": "New Mexico",
    "name": "N.M."
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T22:29:00.087305+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [
      "SADLER, HUDSPETH, BICKLEY, and ZINN, JJ., concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "BOARD OF COM\u2019RS OF MORA COUNTY et al. v. KEYES."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "WATSON, Chief Justice.\nThis is an attempted proceeding to condemn lands for highway purposes. It was early terminated by an order sustaining a motion to strike the \u201ccomplaint\u201d and to dismiss the proceeding, from which order \u201cplaintiff,\u201d whoever he or it may be, was granted an appeal.\nThe \u201ccomplaint\u201d was signed by Manuel Valdez and by him verified. The point of the motion seems to be that the board of county commissioners of Mora county, being the necessary and sole petitioner, had failed, by itself or -by its attorney, to sign the petition. In the caption of the \u201ccomplaint,\u201d the board, together with the three members, of whom Valdez is one, are named as \u201cplaintiff.\u201d\nWe are not greatly impressed with the importance of the points argued in the briefs. Indeed, we do not perceive any necessity for this appeal. The stricken \u201ccomplaint\u201d was quite informal, though we are not prepared to say that we should have held it insufficient if the trial judge had seen fit to proceed upon it.\nIf' the board of county commissioners had in fact authorized the proceeding, a matter not entirely clear from the record, its \u201ccomplaint\u201d could easily have been amended to meet the objections, and the court would no doubt have permitted the requisite amendments if application had been made. If the board had not authorized the proceeding, it was properly dismissed.\nThe order appealed from will be affirmed without prejudice to any further proceedings.\nIt is so ordered.\nSADLER, HUDSPETH, BICKLEY, and ZINN, JJ., concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "WATSON, Chief Justice."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Truder & Faircloth, of Las Vegas, for appellant.",
      "W. J. Lucas, of Las Vegas, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "32 P.(2d) 1017\nBOARD OF COM\u2019RS OF MORA COUNTY et al. v. KEYES.\nNo. 3884.\nSupreme Court of New Mexico.\nMay 14, 1934.\nTruder & Faircloth, of Las Vegas, for appellant.\nW. J. Lucas, of Las Vegas, for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0337-01",
  "first_page_order": 373,
  "last_page_order": 374
}