Opinion ID: 2599815
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Application of Section 42A-1-24(D)

Text: {21} The New Mexico Eminent Domain Code requires that [j]udgment shall credit against the total amount awarded to the condemnee any payments or deposits paid over to him made before the date of entry of judgment by the condemnor as compensation for the property taken, including any funds which the condemnee withdrew from the amount deposited by the condemnor pursuant to the provisions of Section 42A-1-19 or 42A-1-22 NMSA 1978. Section 42A-1-24(D). The School District urges this Court to hold that the Code contemplates that all amounts paid to Thunder Mountain should be credited. However, this argument ignores the fact that the CIAC paid to Thunder Mountain was part of a contractual obligation mandated by the PRC. This is not the sort of payment the Legislature envisioned when drafting Section 42A-1-24(D). Rather, the statute contemplates prepayments or deposits, neither of which is at issue here.