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    "judges": [
      "OMAN and STEPHENSON, JJ., concur in result."
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    "parties": [
      "James E. WOMACK, Relator-Appellant, v. REGENTS OF the UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, Respondents-Appellees."
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        "text": "OPINION\nCOMPTON, Chief Justice.\nThis is an appeal by the relator from an order dismissing his application for a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to comply with constitutional and statutory requirements in the exercise of their official duties as Regents of the University of New Mexico. The claimed basis for his right of action is that he is a resident taxpayer. Relator is mistaken in this regard. The University of New Mexico is a creature of the Constitution of the State of New Mexico, Art. XII, \u00a7 13, augmented by statute, \u00a7 73-25-3, N.M.S.A. 1953, and the respondents owe their duties to the State of New Mexico, not to a private person. This being so, it follows that relator, though a taxpayer, has no standing to enforce by mandamus a duty owing to the public. State ex rel. Naramore v. Hensley, 53 N.M. 308, 207 P.2d 529. See 52 Am.Jur.2d, Mandamus, \u00a7 391.\nThis is not to say that a private person may not move for mandamus to enforce a public duty not due to the State. State ex rel. Burg v. City of Albuquerque, 31 N.M. 576, 249 P. 242.\nWe conclude that appellant was without standing to enforce mandamus. The order should be affirmed.\nIt is so ordered.\nOMAN and STEPHENSON, JJ., concur in result.",
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      "James E. Womack, pro se.",
      "Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, William A. Sloan, Albuquerque, for appellees."
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    "head_matter": "483 P.2d 934\nJames E. WOMACK, Relator-Appellant, v. REGENTS OF the UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, Respondents-Appellees.\nNo. 9154.\nSupreme Court of New Mexico.\nApril 12, 1971.\nJames E. Womack, pro se.\nRodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, William A. Sloan, Albuquerque, for appellees."
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