Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-08-03
BIG INSURANCE
CASE DEC'OED
Supreme Court Affirms Judg-
ment for $11,O5O in Favor
of Mrs. Perea
LAS VEGAS MORA HIGHWAY
Good Roads Survey Completed
Cutting Down Grades and
Shortening Distance.

The territorial supreme court this
forenoon, after hearing arguments in
the case yesterday afternoon, affirmed
the decision of the lower court, in
which judgment for $11,050 was given
in favor of the plaintiff, in the case of
Emelia NJ Perea, appellee, VS.. The
States Life Insurance Company of In
dianapolis of Indiana, appellant. The
opinion was written by Associate JUS
tice Frank w. Parker, and all the
judges concurred, except Associate
Justice Ira A. Abbott who could not
sit in the case having heard it in the
lower court. The action was brought
to collect the amount due upon a life
insurance policy issued by the ap-
pellant to Pedro Perea, of Bernalillo,
former delegate to Congress. The pol
icy was issued only a few months be-
fore Perea's death and the insurance
company resisted payment on the
ground that the deceased had failed
to disclose in his answers to direct
questions On the application blank,
that he had consulted physician for
Indigestion; that he failed to pay
promissory note he had given the in
surance agent for large part of the
first years premium, and that he died
of a hemorrhage of the stomach due
to liberation of the stomach. The
judgment of the lower court was
against the insurance company which
appealed to the supreme court. The
case will likely be carried to the y. S.
supreme court.
Case No. 1888, Franz Schmidt as
trustee in bankruptcy of Jasper n.
Broyles, bankrupt, appellee, VS.. The
Bank of Commerce, appellant, was ar
cured and submitted
Annual Report on Education.
Territorial Superintendent of Public
Education James E. Clark is prepar-
ing an abstract of his annual report
for the report of Governor Mills, to
the secretary of the interior, which is
likely to be the last report by a ter
ritorial governor.
Las Vegas-Mora Road.
Territorial Engineer Vernon L. Sui
Ivan announced today that the survey
OF the good roads commission from
Las Vegas to Mora has been complet-
ed. The distance of the road as pro-
Dosed under this survey will be ex-
actly 81 miles and will avoid all low
places being entirely over the mesas
and along the top of divides. Going to
Mora, none of the grades will exceed
T 1-2 per cent, and returning to Las
Vegas not to exceed per cent. Two
other routes will be surveyed next
week so as to make sure that the best
route will be selected, but it is al
most certain that the first survey will
be selected because of its easy grade
over the mesa a distance of II miles,
to the Sapello concrete bridge and
then follows the mesa to the Seboya.
This river is followed for five miles
and then crosses at an easy ford'
The road is then continued along and
over the Mora divide and will enter
Mora from the west. Of the routes to
be surveyed next week, one passes
through La Cueva and the other
through SapellO.
Other Good Roads.
The men in the convict camp up the
Santa Fe canon are making good prog
ress on the Scenic Highway. Next
week a floating detachment will be
put to work On the Santa Fe trail De
tween Santa Fe and Las Vegas. From
here to Glorieta, new line will De
followed which have easy grades, viii
cut out the Canoncito hill and avoid
the sand of the arroyos between San
ia Fe and Canoncito.
Receipts by Territorial Treasurer.
Territorial Treasurer M. A. Otere
today received the following remit
tances: From Robert P. Ervien, lane
commissioner, s736.31; Mora county
s1,15S.4O; Guadalupe county, $S04.42
Mckinley county, $379.49; Colfa1
county, $347.65.
Trustees of Insane Asylum.
The board of trustees of the terri
torial hospital for the insane, held it:
regular monthly meeting yesterday a
Las Vegas. G. C. Robbins was sworn
in as a member of the board tt
take the place of Elias Garcia, of Al
buquerque, who died recently |
was reported to the board tha
progress on the construction of th'
addition to the dining room of the in
stitution at Las Vegas is going OF
nicely. Routine business occupied th'
attention of the board during prac
tically the entire session.