The plaintiff, his agent or attorney, shall make oath that the amount sued for is for rent or advances, such as are mentioned in the first section [48-6-1 NMSA 1978] of this act, or shall produce a writing signed by such tenant to that effect, and shall further swear that such warrant is not sued out for the purpose of vexing and harrassing [harassing] the defendant; and the person applying for such warrant shall execute a bond with two or more good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the justice of the peace [magistrate], payable to the defendant, conditioned that the plaintiff will pay the defendant such damages as he may sustain in case such warrant has been illegally and unjustly sued out, which bond shall be filed among the papers of the cause; and, in case the suit be finally decided in favor of the defendant, he may bring suit against the plaintiff and his sureties on such bond, and shall recover such damages as may be awarded to him by the proper tribunal.
History: Laws 1921, ch. 182, § 6; C.S. 1929, § 82-106; 1941 Comp., § 48-1506; 1953 Comp., § 61-6-6.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
For justice of the peace construed to refer to magistrate court, see 35-1-38 NMSA 1978. Pursuant to Laws 1968, ch. 62, § 40, "magistrate" was inserted in brackets throughout this section.