GALAXY OUTDOOR ADVER. v. IDAHO TRANSP. DEPT.

Nos. 15421, 15423 and 15424.

710 P.2d 602 (1985)

109 Idaho 692

GALAXY OUTDOOR ADVERTISING, INC., a Nevada corporation; Snarr Outdoor Advertising, Inc., an Idaho corporation; Signs, Inc., an Idaho corporation; Image National Corporation, an Idaho corporation; Grant Wilkins, Assignee of claims of Mountain States Advertising, Inc., a Colorado Corporation; Obie Communications Corporation, an Oregon corporation; Rocky Mountain Outdoor Advertising Company, a California corporation, Plaintiffs, and Charles P. Cosgriff, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The IDAHO TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, a civil department of the State of Idaho; Carl C. Moore, Lloyd F. Barron, Roi Strochein, as the Members of the Idaho Transportation Board; Carl C. Moore, Lloyd F. Barron, Roi Strochein, Individually; E.D. Tisdale, as State Highway Administrator for the Idaho Transportation Department, Division of Highways; E.D. Tisdale, Individually, Defendants-Respondents. GALAXY OUTDOOR ADVERTISING, INC., a Nevada corporation; Grant Wilkins, Assignee in claims of Mountain States Advertising, Inc., a Colorado corporation; and Rocky Mountain Outdoor Advertising Company, a California corporation, Plaintiff-Appellants, and Snarr Outdoor Advertising, Inc., an Idaho corporation; Signs, Inc., an Idaho corporation; Image National Corporation, an Idaho corporation; Obie Communications Corporation, an Oregon corporation; and Charles P. Cosgriff, Plaintiffs, v. The IDAHO TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, a civil department of the State of Idaho; Carl C. Moore, Lloyd F. Barron, Roi Strochein, as the Members of the Idaho Transportation Board; Carl C. Moore, Lloyd F. Barron, Roi Strochein, Individually; E.D. Tisdale, as State Highway Administrator for the Idaho Transportation Department, Division of Highways; E.D. Tisdale, Individually, Defendants-respondents. GALAXY OUTDOOR ADVERTISING, INC., a Nevada corporation; Signs, Inc., an Idaho corporation; Image National Corporation, an Idaho corporation; Grant Wilkins, Assignee of claims of Mountain States Advertising, Inc., a Colorado corporation; Obie Communications Corporation, an Oregon corporation; Rocky Mountain Outdoor Advertising Company, a California corporation; and Charles P. Cosgriff, Plaintiffs, and Snarr Outdoor Advertising, Inc., an Idaho corporation, Plaintiff-appellant, v. The IDAHO TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, a civil department of the State of Idaho; Carl C. Moore, Lloyd F. Barron, Roi Strochein, as the Members of the Idaho Transportation Board; Carl C. Moore, Lloyd F. Barron, Roi Strochein, Individually; E.D. Tisdale, as State Highway Administrator for Idaho Transportation Department, Division of Highways; E.D. Tisdale, Individually, Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Idaho.

December 5, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. Crapo, of Holden, Kidwell, Hahn & Crapo, Idaho Falls, for plaintiffs Galaxy, Wilkins, Rocky Mountain and Snarr.

Terry C. Copple, of Davison, Copple, Copple & Copple, Boise, for plaintiff-appellant Cosgriff.

Patrick W. Fanning, of the Idaho Transp. Dept., Boise, for defendants-respondents.


BAKES, Justice.

Appellants appeal from a district court order granting summary judgment in favor of the Idaho Transportation Department. The district court, in granting summary judgment, ruled that contracts executed between the advertising companies and the Idaho Department of Transportation bound all parties and prevented the advertising companies from recovering for certain highway signs removed pursuant to federal and state highway beautification acts. We affirm...

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