COLORADO 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.

Asked what lessons they shared, Ceil Barrie said with teary eyes, "Yeah, don't annoy the government."

Pity. I was hoping they'd sue.