Legal Opinion
Docheff v. City of Broomfield
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided August 21, 1980No. 79CA0179PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN CISE, Judge.
Defendant, City of Broomfield (the city) appeals a preliminary injunction prohibiting it from allowing excess drainage water generated in the Greenway Park Subdivision to be collected in the storm drainage system and then deposited on the land of the plaintiff, Metro Docheff. We affirm.
The material facts are undisputed. Plaintiff has owned and farmed his land since 1923. Until 1971, the land to the west was also farmed. Natural drainage was from the west in a sheet flow over plaintiff’s land. The upper landowner constructed a berm and a ditch parallel to his boundary fence,…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Echave v. City of Grand JunctionSupreme Court of Colorado · 1948
- Boglino v. GiorgettaColorado Court of Appeals · 1904
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3Cited by14 opinions
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