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- Title: Platte River Power Authority v. Nelson
- Author : Colorado Court of Appeals No. 86CA1817
- Release Date : January 04, 1989
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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Opinion by JUDGE METZGER In this condemnation action, the petitioner, Platte River Power Authority, appeals the trial court judgment awarding attorney fees to respondents (landowners). Platte River argues that the dismissal of the condemnation action failed to constitute a finding pursuant to § 38-1-122, C.R.S. (1988 Cum. Supp.) that Platte River was ""not authorized by law to acquire real property or interests therein sought in a condemnation proceeding."" Hence, it asserts that an award of attorney fees was not proper. It also contends that the trial court's failure to conduct an evidentiary hearing concerning the reasonableness of the attorney fees constituted error. We affirm. Platte River, a public corporation and political subdivision of the State of Colorado, supplies electricity to the City of Longmont in accordance with § 29-1-201, et seq., C.R.S. (1986 Repl. Vol. 12A) It commenced eminent domain proceedings to acquire electrical transmission line easements from the landowners, ""together with a right-of-way on, along, and in as well as the right of ingress to and egress from the easement strip across the adjoining lands of the fee owner thereof . . . .""