(DOWNLOAD) "State V. Public Employees Retirement Board" by New Mexico Supreme Court # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State V. Public Employees Retirement Board
- Author : New Mexico Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 23, 1954
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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I am unable to see how we can uphold the judgment before us without overruling State ex rel. Sena v. Trujillo, 46 N.M. 361, 129 P.2d 329, 142 A.L.R. 932, in which we expressly declined to follow the majority opinion in Bedford v. White, 106 Colo. 439, 106 P.2d 469, preferring instead the reasoning of a minority opinion by three of the justices. We held the Act before us violated art. IV, 27, and art. IX, 14, of the State Constitution, more especially the former, providing that no laws should be enacted giving extra compensation to any public officer, servant, agent or contractor after services are rendered or contract made. How an amendment to the existing law giving, in exchange for approximately $300, an annuity of $600 for life to former officers and employees already retired, without the rendition of additional services, can escape condemnation of this constitutional proviso has not been satisfactorily explained by the majority.