Colorado § 37-4-109 - Appeals from awards.
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§ 37-4-109. Appeals from awards.
(1) Any person or public or private corporation desiring to appeal from an award of the appraisers as to compensation, damages, or benefits shall, within ten days from the judgment of the court confirming the report of the appraisers, file with the clerk of the court a written notice making demand for a jury trial. If the appeal is solely from an award as to benefits, the appellant shall, at the same time, file a bond with good and sufficient security to be approved by the clerk, in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, to the effect that if the verdict is not more favorable to appellant than the award of the appraisers, the appellant will pay the costs of the appeal. The appellant shall state definitely from what part of the order the appeal is taken. The appeal may be from the award of compensation, damages, or benefits, or one or more of them, but from no other part of the judgment of the court confirming the report of the appraisers.
(2) In case more than one appeal is filed from the award as to compensation, damages, or benefits, the court may, upon a showing that the same may be consolidated without injury to the interest of anyone, consolidate and try the same together.
(3) Upon demand for a jury trial to fix the amount of compensation for property proposed to be taken or damaged, the court shall order the board of directors at once to begin condemnation proceedings therefor in the district court of the county in which are situate the lands sought to be condemned, in the district court in and for such county, which suit shall be conducted in accordance with articles 1 to 7 of title 38, C.R.S., concerning the right of eminent domain, where a jury is demanded.
(4) Upon demand for a jury trial to fix the assessment of benefits or the assessment of damages other than those incident to condemnation proceedings, the court shall order the board of directors to present a petition embodying the facts and the claims made in short form, which shall be filed in the court in which the original case is pending, whereupon a jury shall be empaneled according to law to try and determine the issue presented, as in condemnation proceedings.
Source: L. 22: p. 37, § 33. C.L. § 9547. CSA: C. 138, § 158. CRS 53: § 30-4-9. C.R.S. 1963: § 29-4-9.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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