Denver Land Co. v. Moffat Tunnel Improvement District

The decision of the court sustaining the plea in bar brings, I presume, an end to the shameful history of the construction and leasing of the Moffat tunnel. Shameful, I say, because as the records and opinions of the courts that have been concerned indicate too plainly, never, either in the deliberations of the tunnel commission or in the courts, were the taxpayers of the district given a reasonable opportunity to be heard. Shameful, I say, because by legal gymnastics the actual issue, the question of the validity of the supplemental bonds, has been foreclosed and the taxpayers and their…