Malvernia Investment Co. v. City of Trinidad

[1] As applied to the particular trial court here involved, the futility of a written opinion for the purpose of guidance is apparent when the record herein is considered. In the case of Foxgruber v. Hansen, 128 Colo. 511, 265 P.2d 233, a case concerning dependency proceedings before this same trial court, attention was called to numerous court cases which had construed our dependency statutes and announced rules for the guidance of courts having jurisdiction in dependency cases. Such announced rules apparently were not welcomed, because we again find that they were unheeded. A process to stop this one-way traffic with the rights of parents concerning custody of their children should be evolved. The trial court in the instant case assumed the wide discretion prescribed in our statutes for juvenile courts; however, this is not a juvenile court as is provided for in our statutes for cities of 100,000 or more. It only has original jurisdiction in dependency matters within the strict limitations of the statute.