New Mexico § 42-4-24 - Assessment work pending suit; retention of ore

§ 42-4-24. Assessment work pending suit; retention of ore

Hereafter in any suit or action pending in any of the courts of this state, involving

the right to the possession or title of any lode or placer mining claim located under

the mining laws, and upon which it is necessary to do the annual assessment work to

prevent the same from becoming forfeited and subject to relocation, the party or parties

to any such suit out of possession, upon petition to the court in which suit or action

is pending, showing that such annual assessment work has not been done on or before

the first day of November in the year during which such work is required to be done,

shall be entitled to an order as of course in such suit or action, permitting such

party or parties to enter in and upon such mine or mining claims, with their agents

and laborers, and to do and perform such annual assessment work to prevent the said

mining claim or claims from becoming subject to relocation: provided, that in the

doing of such work, no ore shall be removed from the boundaries of such mining claim.