Shigo, LLC v. Hocker

JUDGE BOORAS,

dissenting.

{ 19 I respectfully dissent from the majority's decision that water rights evidenced by shares in a mutual ditch company qualify as exempt from levy and execution by creditors under Colorado's homestead exemption statute. The majority reasons that by including a "farm" as property subject to the homestead exemption, the General Assembly in*427tended to include irrigation water rights that are necessary to grow crops. I disagree that the statutory homestead exemption was intended to shield mutual ditch company stock shares.

I. Whether Water Rights in Colorado Are…