Case Name: CONNER v. FLASKA et ux
Court: Supreme Court of New Mexico
Jurisdiction: New Mexico
Decision Date: 1927-01-07
Citations: 32 N.M. 162
Docket Number: No. 3026
Parties: CONNER v. FLASKA et ux
Judges: PARKER, C. J., and B10KLET and WATSON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: New Mexico Reports
Volume: 32
Pages: 162–163

Head Matter:
[No. 3026,
Jan. 7, 1927]
CONNER v. FLASKA et ux
[252 Pac. 1001]
T. J. Mabry, of Albuquerque, for appellant.
George C. Taylor, of Albuquerque, for appellees.

Opinion:
OPINON OP THE COURT
PER CURIAM.
Appellant, plaintiff below, sued to recover $75, a balance for professional services rendered. The jury found against him, and judgment followed. He complains here that, over his objection and exception, the court refused to allow his counsel to address the jury. This seems to ha.ve been the denial of a right which a party litigant enjoys under Gode 1915, §4467, which reads:
"Every plaintiff or defendant shall be entitled to be heard before the jury by an attorney, and if there be but one plaintiff or defendant, by two, and when there are several defendants having- the same or separate defenses and appearing- by the same or different attorneys, the court» shall, before argument, arrange their order."
See Territory v. Sherron, 11 N. M. 515, 70 P. 562.
Because of this error, the judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial; and it is so ordered.
PARKER, C. J., and B10KLET and WATSON, JJ., concur.