BECKORD v. DISTRICT COURT OF LARIMER COUNTY

No. 84SA349.

698 P.2d 1323 (1985)

Bruce M. BECKORD, Bob Copper, Robert L. Collard, Edward Grueff, Gerard Pearson, James Durward, Goran Svenonius, Nick Kane, Penny L. Kane, Nicky's Restaurant and Lounge, Ltd., a Colorado Corporation; Nicky's Restaurant, Lounge and Motor Lodge, a Colorado Corporation; Perry E. Bartlett and Audrey M. Bartlett, d/b/a Deer Crest Chalets; Don L. Heinemann and Nelrose R. Heinemann, d/b/a The Villager Motel; Crossed Fingers, Inc., d/b/a Eiker's Motor Inn, a Colorado Corporation; Aldon and Elizabeth Olson, Ronald C. Brodie; Brodie's Supermarket, Inc., Lonigan's, a Colorado General Partnership; Parkwheel Corporation, a Colorado Corporation, Steven Nagl, Lon Kinnie; Lloyd Meyers and Mary M. Meyers; Charlotte Miller, d/b/a "Indian Village" and Apropo, Inc., Petitioners, v. The DISTRICT COURT OF the COUNTY OF LARIMER In the EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, State of Colorado; and The Honorable William F. Dressel, one of the Judges thereof, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied May 6, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

French & Stone, P.C., Joseph C. French, David M. Haynes, Miller, Gray & Hale, P.C., Robert Bruce Miller, Bragg & Dubofsky, P.C., Frank N. Dubofsky, Boulder, for petitioners.

William F. Dressel, Fort Collins, pro se.

March, Myatt, Korb, Carroll & Brandes, Robert W. Brandes, Jr., Fort Collins, for Shareholders, Directors, and Employees of Farmers Irrigating Ditch and Reservoir Co. (defendants in respondent Court).

DeMoulin, Anderson, Campbell & Laugesen, P.C., Laird Campbell, Denver, for Town of Estes Park (defendant in respondent Court).


NEIGHBORS, Justice.

This is an original proceeding filed by the petitioners pursuant to C.A.R. 21. We issued a rule to show cause why the respondent judge should not be disqualified from presiding over the consolidated cases pending in the Larimer County District Court. We now make the rule absolute.

I.

On July 15, 1982, the Lawn Lake Dam in Larimer County collapsed and released a large volume of water into a stream known as the Roaring River, which...

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