Miller v. City of Socorro

Citations

• 9 N.M. 416

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Municipal Corporations —Warrants—Action—Intervention—Limitation. — 1. A tax payer may be granted leave to intervene m an appeal taken under section 289.of the Compiled Laws of New Mexico, 1897, by a claimant feeling aggrieved by the aetiom of the city council.</p> <p>2. It is not error for the court to enter judgment against plaintiff, a plea of the statute of limitations having been interposed, on a petition to fund city warrants, where there is nothing in the record in explanation of the long delay of ten years or more, extending from the date of the city’s indorsement upon the warrants of “not paid for want of funds” to the date of bringing suit, in instituting the action.</p>