Court Opinion

ID: 9863751
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 05:53:33.048569+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:04:15.359470
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CARMODY, Justice (dissenting). Although I initially concurred in the opinion prepared by Judge McCULLOH, which was filed on November 1, 1962, I cannot agree that the motion for rehearing be denied summarily. I am of the opinion that the decision herein announced is probably contrary to Sanchez v. Bernalillo County, 1953, 57 N.M. 217, 257 P.2d 909; Lucero v. White Auto Stores, 1955, 60 N.M. 266, 291 P.2d 308; and Yardman v. Cooper, 1959, 65 N.M. 450, 339 P.2d 473. I do not believe that the holdings of the court in these three cases should be made doubtful without the participation of a full court. It would also appear to me that it is almost impossible to reconcile the instant opinion with our recent holding in Batte v. Stanley’s, 1962, 70 N.M. 364, 374 P.2d 124. This, too, is a question which I feel should be passed upon by the entire court. I fully realize that under our present rule the motion may perhaps properly be denied when two of the three participating justices so signify. This would apparently follow from the rule of Flaska v. State, 1946, 51 N.M. 13, 177 P.2d 174. Thus, I agree that the motion for rehearing will stand denied by operation of law; however, in view of my feeling with regard to the denial of the motion for rehearing, my concurrence in the opinion is hereby withdrawn and shall be considered as a special concurrence in the result only. It should also be noted that the dilemma with which we are faced in this particular case will probably not occur again, in view of the recent amendment to Supreme Court Rule 18, which is to be effective April 1, 1963 (to appear as § 21-2-1 (18) (8), N.M. S.A.1953, 1963 Pocket Supp.).