{
  "id": 5334405,
  "name": "Velda HOLCOMB and Virgil Holcomb, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. William POWER, Jr., Defendant-Appellant; Dona SUTTON and R. H. Sutton, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. William POWER, Jr., Defendant-Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Holcomb v. Power",
  "decision_date": "1971-12-22",
  "docket_number": "No. 734",
  "first_page": "496",
  "last_page": "497",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "83 N.M. 496"
    },
    {
      "type": "parallel",
      "cite": "493 P.2d 981"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.M. Ct. App.",
    "id": 9025,
    "name": "Court of Appeals of New Mexico"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 52,
    "name_long": "New Mexico",
    "name": "N.M."
  },
  "cites_to": [
    {
      "cite": "60 N.M. 379",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "N.M.",
      "case_ids": [
        1590421
      ],
      "weight": 2,
      "year": 1955,
      "opinion_index": 0,
      "case_paths": [
        "/nm/60/0379-01"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cite": "81 N.M. 489",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "N.M.",
      "case_ids": [
        5365181
      ],
      "weight": 2,
      "year": 1970,
      "opinion_index": 0,
      "case_paths": [
        "/nm/81/0489-01"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "analysis": {
    "cardinality": 224,
    "char_count": 2387,
    "ocr_confidence": 0.663,
    "pagerank": {
      "raw": 2.2963508631743849e-07,
      "percentile": 0.7868659524165309
    },
    "sha256": "be8cfe26ad131d88db5132937feac42ee2413ecf35af4e2f049058d83fe36e30",
    "simhash": "1:5391d80265428102",
    "word_count": 403
  },
  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T17:09:20.437308+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [
      "HENDLEY and COWAN, JJ., concur.",
      "WOOD, C. J., not participating."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "Velda HOLCOMB and Virgil Holcomb, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. William POWER, Jr., Defendant-Appellant. Dona SUTTON and R. H. Sutton, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. William POWER, Jr., Defendant-Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "OPINION\nSUTIN, Judge.\nThis is an appeal from a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs on the issue of liability growing out of an automobile accident.\nWe reverse.\nOn July 25, 1968, at about 11:30 p. m., Power left the Boon Docks bar, about seven miles east of Farmington, and began to drive westward toward Farmington on State Road 17. Mrs. Holcomb and Mrs. Sutton left the bar and followed Power in a Chevrolet pickup driven by Mrs. Sutton. State Road 17 is a four-lane, divided highway with thirteen foot wide lanes, constructed of asphalt. About halfway between the Boon Docks bar and Farming-ton, Mrs. Sutton passed Power and resumed travel in the right-hand lane. As she was coming into a curve in the road, she and Mrs. Holcomb were just talking, and all of a sudden the accident happened. All that Mrs. Sutton remembered was that something struck her pickup. She did not know what caused the accident.\nPower was in the left-hand passing lane at the time of the accident, and testified that Mrs. Sutton \u201chad to be on the right-hand side lane or part way on the right-hand lane.\u201d He knew the accident occurred because he was in the ditch on the right-hand side of the road behind the Sutton pickup. Mrs. Sutton\u2019s pickup left a total of 195 feet of skid marks on her side of the road.\n\u201cWhere the slightest doubt exists as to the material facts summary judgment should not be granted.\u201d Binns v. Schoenbrun, 81 N.M. 489, 468 P.2d 890 (Ct.App. 1970). [Emphasis added.] Trial courts should not forget that \u201c[t]he summary judgment statute is drastic and its purpose is not to substitute for existing methods in the trial of issues of fact.\u201d Zengerle v. Commonwealth Insurance Company of New York, 60 N.M. 379, 291 P.2d 1099 (1955).\nWe believe the slightest doubt does exist on the issues of negligence and proximate cause.\nThe summary judgment is reversed.\nIt is so ordered.\nHENDLEY and COWAN, JJ., concur.\nWOOD, C. J., not participating.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "SUTIN, Judge."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Daniel C. Lili, LeRoi Farlow, Albuquerque, for appellant.",
      "Benjamin Eastburn, James L. Brown, Farmington, for appellee."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "493 P.2d 981\nVelda HOLCOMB and Virgil Holcomb, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. William POWER, Jr., Defendant-Appellant. Dona SUTTON and R. H. Sutton, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. William POWER, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.\nNo. 734.\nCourt of Appeals of New Mexico.\nDec. 22, 1971.\nRehearing Denied Jan. 12, 1972.\nCertiorari Denied Deb. 9, 1972.\nDaniel C. Lili, LeRoi Farlow, Albuquerque, for appellant.\nBenjamin Eastburn, James L. Brown, Farmington, for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0496-01",
  "first_page_order": 622,
  "last_page_order": 623
}