Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-07-01
.S0C0RRO TO SECURE
JUDICIAL DISTRICT
HEADQUARTERS
Supreme Court Justices VIII
Probably Give Gem
City the De-
ClSiOn.
IMPORTANT CASES
DECIDED TODAY
Court Hands Down Opinions In
Number OF AppedIs--Pcrma-
nent Board Named
to Examine
Attorneys. \

Santa F'e, n. NJ. July 1.-Socorro
will probably get the headquarters
for the new judicial district, though
a decision Of the supreme court JUS
tices had not been made at a late
hour this afternoon. The court grant,
cd a hearing to the various applE-
oants for the headquarters and that
gave an opportunity to a number OF
the finest orators of the territory to
set forth in eloquent language the
beauty, attractiveness and resources
of their home towns. 1t appears,
however, that Socorro has the lead
When the supreme court convened
today, Judge A. w. Cooley took his
pleGp - krr'''' sr~"o ding judy
III RI ap-
pointed y----.. a. of santa
Fe, secretary Wnul Kew Mexico Bar
association. w. J. Lucas. of Las We
gas. ana julius StaaD, of Albuquer-
que, were appointed permanent ex-
the bar, under the new, examination
law. 81
Supreme Court Decisions.
Opinions were handed down by tina
supreme court in the following cases.
s'S.es. aifg ises vs.. NJ r.
Cook, who was convicted of adaItery.
in the Fifth Judicial district court.
Affirmed.
Frank IA. Jones, trustee in bank
ruptcy of the ORC Dredging company.
ha arln In aV
pellee. The suit was brought to ses
aside the sale by order of the court
of the orc Dredge at Moreno, Colfax
county, to Charles Springer for So
900. The supreme court holds with
the district court for Colfax county
that the sale was "a oonafide one and
valid. Affirmed
T. A. Fabro. appellee, VS.. Town of
Gallup, appellant, au appeal from
Mckinley county. The suit was
brought to restrain the town of Gai-
lup from issuing water bonds to the
amount of $4,000, voted at special
election at which SO votes were cast.
IL of these against the bond issue,
the plaintiff maintaining that two
thirds of the entire vote of the town
should have been cast to make the
issue a legal one The district court
took this view of the case, but the su-
preme court does not. Reversed.
Richard De Palma and Bernard
Ruppe. appellees, VS.. J. A. Wienman
and Joseph Barnett. appellants, in
which the plaintiffs who had sued
for $4,000 damages caused to them
by the collapse of an adobe wall
which ruined the drug store of Ber-
nard Ruppe at albuquerque, had
been awarded $4,000. Reversed.
w. L. Sears, appellee, vs.. John
Fewson. appellant, involving the va
lidity of the so-called Lincoln county
fence law of 1884. The opinion is by
Judge Abbott The lower court had
granted a decree perpetually enjoin-
ing the defendant from permitting
his cattle to wander and trespass ON
said crops and grass of the plaintiff.
Reversed
The court also reversed the decision
OF the lower court in the case OF tho
territory, appellee, VS., Malaquias
Cortez, appellant from Taos county.
J. p. Patchen, plaintiff, VS. Thomas
] Curran, defendant, the latter hav-
ing failed to perfect his appeal, the
judgment of the court below for
$573.0s was affirmed and judgme IT
and ten per cent damages ordered,
the sureties being Thomas ]. Currau.
NJ. =. Stamm and A. NJ. WhitcOmb.