GUDE v. CITY OF LAKEWOOD

No. 80SA81.

636 P.2d 691 (1981)

Arthur J. GUDE, 3rd, Peter H. Fieber, Lowell J. Jarratt, and Chester I. Thompson, as residents, voters and taxpayers of the City of Lakewood, Colorado, for themselves and also as representatives on behalf of all other residents, voters and taxpayers of said City, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The CITY OF LAKEWOOD, Colorado; Charles Whitlock, individually and also as the Mayor of said City; the City Council of said City; Carolyn Bacher, Sharon Carr, James Eitzen, Raymond Fink, Jim Lee, John A. Morgan, Carl Neu, Jr., Gaylor V. Smith, Paul W. Thompson, and Lester Willson, individually and also as members of the City Council of said City; Robert O. Darrow, individually and also as the City Treasurer of said City; Charles S. Anderson, individually and also as the City Administrator of said City; Lakewood Public Building Authority, a Colorado non-profit corporation; and David L. Hoover, Kathleen Kleinkopf, John F. Milan, Franklin J. Parks, Jr., and Linda Shaw, individually and also as the members and officers of said corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado.

Rehearing Denied November 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elias J. Candell, Lakewood, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Gorsuch, Kirgis, Campbell, Walker & Grover, John S. Pfeiffer, Robert E. Warren, Jr., Lamm, Edstrom & Stowe, William O. Lamm, Denver, for defendants-appellees.

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Sol. Gen., Stephen H. Kaplan, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, amicus curiae.


LOHR, Justice.

The plaintiffs, who are residents, voters, and taxpayers of the City of Lakewood (city), brought this suit in Jefferson County District Court1 challenging the legality of actions by the city, the Lakewood Public Building Authority (building authority) and certain of their officials in structuring plans for the financing and construction of a municipal office building (city hall...

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