Legal Opinion
Lee v. State
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided April 6, 2000No. 33081PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
The issue in this case is whether an access road constructed by a mining corporation on federal property pursuant to a right-of-way granted by the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) constitutes a “highway” for purposes of NRS chapter 484. We conclude that it does not.
FACTS
On June 19, 1996, appellant Garry Robert Lee exited the Coeur-Rochester Mine and drove his Peterbilt tractor and tanker trailer on an access road that runs between the mine and Limerick Canyon Road located in Pershing County. Lee had been driving on the wrong side of the road when he collided with another vehicle…
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