Harrison v. Department of Highways

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, C. J.:

This case involves the long-debated “Sunnyside Cutoff” which the Nevada Department of Highways decided to construct as State Highway 38. The appellants are residents, *185taxpayers and businessmen of Lincoln County who object to the Department of Highways’ location of this highway.

The general route of Highway 38 was first established by the legislature in 1937 and has since been changed to that now described in NRS 408.590. In 1967 the Nevada Department of Highways proposed construction of the eleven mile section here in question. Five possible locations were…