CITY & CTY. OF DENVER v. BROCKHURST BOYS RANCH

No. C-1059.

575 P.2d 843 (1978)

The CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, Colorado, a Municipal Corporation, and the Department of Social Services of the City and County of Denver, Petitioners, v. BROCKHURST BOYS RANCH, INC. and the State of Colorado and the Department of Social Services of the State of Colorado, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied March 20, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max P. Zall, City Atty., Robert A. Powell, Frank A. Elzi, Asst. City Attys., Denver, for petitioners.

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Jean E. Dubofsky, Deputy Atty. Gen., Edward G. Donovan, Sol. Gen., Dennis J. Sousa, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, Bennett, Heinicke, Morrison & Heinicke, Howard Morrison, Colorado Springs, for respondents.

Walta, Cross, Gaddis & Kin, Larry R. Gaddis, Colorado Springs, for amicus curiae Colorado Council of Juvenile Court Judges.


LEE, Justice.

Petitioners, City and County of Denver and its Department of Social Services, seek relief from orders of the Denver Juvenile Court requiring payment of the costs of the care, support and maintenance of a minor child found to be a child in need of supervision under the Colorado Children's Code. The child involved was put in the legal custody of the Denver Department of Social Services, which then placed it with the Brockhurst Boys Ranch at Colorado Springs...

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