Martinez v. State

OPINION

LIVERMORE, Chief Judge.

For many years defendant Greenlee County maintained a county road providing access to an area twenty-two miles north of Clifton containing a county park, the Clifton water pumping station, and several ranches and residences. A portion of the county road was washed out in 1983. In order to get around the washout it was necessary to cross private property on a dirt road (“the Potter Road”) constructed some twenty years before to provide access to a highway construction project. The Potter Road was roughly one-quarter mile in length and connected the county road to…