People Ex Rel. Dunbar v. Trinidad State Junior College

We granted certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Appeals in the case of People ex rel. Dunbar v. Colorado Polytechnic College, 32 Colo. App. 166, 512 P.2d 1172 (1973). There it was held that Colorado Polytechnic College was an eleemosynary educational institution, 1967 Perm. Supp., C.R.S. 1963, 146-3-3(3)(c), and not a proprietary school. Id. 146-3-3(2).

Originally, Colorado Polytechnic College brought suit for a declaratory judgment that the Proprietary School Act of 1966, 1967 Perm. Supp., C.R.S. 1963, 146-3-1 et seq., was unconstitutional. On appeal, we disagreed and upheld the…