Reeves v. Jenkins

1 Citing case

  1. State ex rel. Madrid v. UU Bar Ranch Ltd. Partnership

    137 N.M. 719 (N.M. Ct. App. 2005)   Cited 12 times
    Holding that failure to comply with a clear, unambiguous and mandatory statutory requirement or condition precedent invalidated the subsequent action

    Disposition is equated with surrender or abandonment elsewhere in the law. See Reeves v. Jenkins, 439 P.2d 941, 945 (Okla. 1968) (stating that "[a] bankruptcy receiver ordinarily has no power to surrender, abandon, or make some other disposition of property"); see also Regents of the Univ. of N.M. v. N.M. Fed'n of Teachers, 1998-NMSC-020, ΒΆ 27, 125 N.M. 401, 962 P.2d 1236 (recognizing that the plain language of a statute is the primary indicator of legislative intent). Second, Defendant cannot simply ignore the fact that if the Road were truly abandoned, title to the Road would revert to another, which we assume, without deciding, would be Defendant as the abutting landowner.