2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 38 - Trials
Article 4 - Parties
Section 38-4-8 - [Infants; bond of next friend.]
Any person who acts as next friend for an infant in any suit to recover any personal property, debt or damages, shall, if required by the court, execute a bond to such infant in double the amount claimed in such suit, with such sureties as shall be approved by the court, conditioned that such next friend shall account to such infant for all money or property which may be recovered in such suit. Such bond shall be delivered to and filed in the office of the clerk of the court in which said suit is pending.
History: Laws 1897, ch. 73, § 11; C.L. 1897, § 2685 (11); Code 1915, § 4082; C.S. 1929, § 105-203; 1941 Comp., § 19-608; 1953 Comp., § 21-6-8.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Cross references. — For definition of infant, see 38-4-13 NMSA 1978.
For age of majority, see 28-6-1 NMSA 1978.
For suits by or against infants or incompetents generally, see Rule 1-017 NMRA.
