McMillin v. State

Plaintiff in error will be referred to as defendant or McMillin, and defendants in error will be referred to collectively as the State.

This controversy arises out of the Colorado “grasshopper crisis” of 1958 and the statute concerning it which was passed by the state legislature. The statute in question is Chapter 3, Session Laws of Colorado, 1958, First Extraordinary Session.

This writ of error follows a jury verdict against Mc-Millin in the amount of $2,259.62, which represents defendant’s part of the cost of the State’s action in spraying certain of his lands for grasshoppers against his…