Court Opinion

ID: 9855767
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:30:41.555736+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:37:00.574533
License: Public Domain

SPIILLINGLAW, Justice (concurring specially). If there be any doubt in my mind as to the correctness of Mr. Justice McGHEE’s holding that the trial court had no jurisdiction, and I must admit that our holding in Jaritas Live Stock Co. v. Spriggs, 42 N.M. 14, 74 P.2d 722, does raise some doubt, I nevertheless feel that if the trial court had jurisdiction, it lost it after the expiration of one year. In other words, appellant’s right to relief was controlled by Rule 60(b) (1), Rules of Civil Procedure, under the facts in this case. I take this occasion to express my doubt as to the wisdom of Supreme Court Rule 5(1) limiting the right of appeal to a thirty day period. See, dissenting opinion in Scofield v. J. W. Jones Construction Co., 64 N.M. 319, 328 P.2d 389; see also, Public Service Company of New Mexico v. First Judicial District Court, 65 N.M. 185, 334 P.2d 713.