Court Opinion

ID: 9563587
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 18:42:30.290209+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:56.422222
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BOSSON, Judge, specially concurring. {23} I support unequivocally the opinion of the Court because it represents application of settled New Mexico law to the facts of this case. I write separately only to voice my own dissatisfaction with the actual injury analysis in Sharts v. Natelson, 118 N.M. 721, 885 P.2d 642 (1994), for all the reasons pursued unsuccessfully in that case, including the undesirable social consequence of encouraging premature and avoidable litigation at the risk of having one’s injury “accrue.” But whether for good or for ill, Chief Justice Montgomery’s commanding presence in Sharts has swept aside any contrary voice; it is law of the land and we must follow it. Once past that point, I can easily agree that the attempts in this appeal to distinguish Shorts are not persuasive.