Coquina Oil Corp. v. Harry Kourlis Ranch

LOHR, Justice.

Coquina Oil Corporation, N.F.C. Petroleum Corporation, and Hanson Oil Corporation (collectively, Coquina) appeal from the judgment of the Rio Blanco County District Court dismissing their petition in condemnation, which sought a private way of necessity across the land of the appellee, Harry Kourlis Ranch (Kourlis). The district court held that Coquina, a federal oil and gas lessee, could not assert the right to condemn private property for private use provided by Colo.Const. Art. II, § 14 and section 38-1-102(3), C.R.S.1973, and consequently dismissed Coquina’s petition for…