Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-09-02
FIFTY OPINIONS
HANDED DOWN
Supreme Court Cleans Up
Docket in Session of
Eight Weeks
NEW RULES PROMULGATED
Order in Full Re-Assigning the
Judges to Their Present
Districts.

The territorial supreme court late
yesterday afternoon adjourned to jan
uary 2, 1911, after having been in
session almost two months. cleaning
up long docket and handing down
| nifty opinions, some of them OF vital
Importance to the entire common
wealth. One consequence OF this en-
ergetlc work is that only about doz-
en- cases remain to be finally disposed
OF and that when New Mexico comes
In as state, the territorial supreme
court will have completed its work,
giving the state supreme court and
uhe federal court a clean slate.
In case No. 1858, William d. Rad
cliffe, appellee, VS.. Jose E. Chaves, ex-
ecutor, appellant, appeal from yalen-
cla county, motion for rehearing
was denied
In case No. 24S, the Bank of Com
meree, appellee, VS.. Jaspar n. Broy-
les, ct al, appellants, from Socorro
county, the motion for rehearing was
set for oral argument on the first dav
Of the next term, January ?, 1911.
The following is the assignment of
judges as handed down:
We, the undersigned, chief justice
and associate justices of the supreme
court of the territory of New Mex
leo, assembled at the supreme court
room, in the Territorial Capitol, in the
city of Santa Re, in said Territory of
New Mexico;
DO hereby order, that the chief JUS
tice and associate justices are hereby
assigned to the judicial districts as
judges thereof, as follows:
To the First judicial district. Mr..
Associate Justice John R. McFie, with
headquarters at Santa Fe.
To the Second judicial district, Mr..
Associate Justice Ira A. Abbott, with
headquarters at Albuquerque.
To che Third Judicial district, Mf.
Associate Justice Frank w. Parker,
with headquarters at Las Cruces.
To the Fifth judicial district, Mr..
Chief Justice William H. Pope, with
headquarters at Roswell.
To the Sixth judicial district, Mr..
Associate Justice Edward R. Wright,
with headquarters at Alamogordo.
To the Seventh judicial district. Mr..
Associate Justice Merritt c, Mechem,
with headquarters at Socorro.
To the Fouth judicial district, the
remaining associate justice provided
for by law, with headquarters at Las
Vegas.
1t is ordered by the court, that this
assignment shall be in force and take
effect from and after the date herein
and shall remain in full force and af-
feet until otherwise provided by the
chief justice and associate justices of
this court.
1t is further ordered, that the clerk
of the supreme court of the Territory
of New Mexico, enter the foregoing or
der on the records of this court and
that he transmit a certified copy
thereof attaching the seal of the
court there to, to the attorney general
of the United States, to each of the
clerks of the various judicial districts
of the Territory of New Mexico, to the
United States district attorney for
New Mexico and to the United States
marshal for New Mexico
Witness our hands this 3Oth day of
August, A. ID. 1910.
WILLIAM H. POPE,
Chief Justice
JOHN R. McFIE,
Associate Justice.
FRANK w. PARKER,
Associate Justice.
IRA A. ABBOTT,
Associate Justice.
MERRITT C. MECHEM,
Associate Justice.
EDWARD E. WRIGHT,
Associate Justice.
Rules Amended.
The following amendment to the
rules of the supreme court was order
ed: