Court Opinion

ID: 9628769
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:31:50.037341+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:13:57.988268
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE ERICKSON
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. Although the facts may approach the result dictated by the majority opinion, the reasoning and law set forth extends this court’s divided decision in Hunter v. District Court, 190 Colo. 48, 543 P.2d 1265 (1975). I believe the reliance in the majority opinion upon Maestas v. District Court, 189 Colo. 443, 541 P.2d 889 (1975), is misplaced. As the author of the majority opinion in Maestas, I believe that it offers little support for the result reached in this case. Moreover, the reasons which I set forth in my dissent in Hunter v. District Court, supra, are reinforced by the construction of the Hunter decision which the majority adopts in this case.