STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT v. SWIFT

No. 17122.

270 P.2d 751 (1954)

STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT v. SWIFT et al.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied June 7, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., H. Lawrence Hinkley, Deputy Atty. Gen., John M. Evans, Asst. Atty. Gen., for plaintiff in error.

Quaintance & Johnson, Denver, for defendants in error.


HOLLAND, Justice.

The State Highway Department, plaintiff in error, as petitioner, on May 14, 1948, filed its petition in condemnation on certain parcels of land in Clear Creek Canyon for the purpose of establishing a highway. It is stated this highway was made a free way. By the petition, for all purposes here, it was sought to condemn parcels of ground that later were designated as the Johnson group and the other the Quaintance group. About April of 1950, a jury...

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