Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Animas Mosquito Control District

We refer to the plaintiff in error as the telephone company and to the defendant in error as the district.

On September 28, 1960, the trial court entered an order creating the district pursuant to authority granted by C.R.S. ’53, 89-3 (1947 Act), which sanctions the organization of water districts, sewage disposal and sanitation districts, police protection districts, safety protec*75tion districts, and metropolitan districts, the latter designed to afford the benefits of two or more of the above mentioned purposes.

In 1959 the legislature amended the 1947 act by adding to the above mentioned…