Chancellor v. People

Plaintiff in error, to whom we will refer as defendant, was summoned to appear before a justice of the peace in Adams County on a charge of speeding at the rate of sixty miles per hour on a public highway over an area where the maximum posted speed had been set by the highway department at forty-five miles per hour.

Authority for reducing the speed limit where circumstances warrant such action is placed in the state department of highways under the provisions of C.R.S. ’53, 13-4-33 (4) where we find the following:

“Whenever the state department of highways shall determine upon the basis of an…