City and County of Denver v. Stanley Aviation Corp.

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court, where defendant in error was plaintiff and plaintiff in error was defendant, or by name.

Plaintiff sued for damages for the alleged obstruction of a drainage course with resulting water and sediment damages to certain of its chattel property. The locus is the vicinity of Denver’s Stapleton Airfield. Judgment was for the plaintiff in the sum of Eight Hundred Twenty-Seven Dollars ($827.00), and the defendant is here by writ of error seeking reversal.

Denver owned land pertinent hereto north of 26th Avenue, and utilized it as a…