Colo. eminent domain case settled with $115,000 sale
“A contentious eminent domain case in which a local government sought to take private backcountry land for open space has been settled, with the landowners agreeing to a $115,000 sale.
“To me, what just came out of it is, you can’t win, you can’t fight the government,” landowner Ceil Barrie said Wednesday.
She and her husband, Andy, owned ten acres of land perched at 11,000 feet elevation in Breckenridge. The property, with breathtaking views, was a private patch of land surrounded by White River National Forest.
An old, uninhabited day-use cabin, an outhouse and a shuttered gold mine sit on it.
The Barries’ legal troubles began when they worked to access their personal paradise with a utility vehicle. They traveled on an old mining road dating back to the 1880s and said the county did not even know about the road until they made them aware of it. “
Mangan, Faith. Fox News 17 April 2014.