WITCHER v. CANON CITY

Nos. 84SA111, 84SA204.

716 P.2d 445 (1986)

John Stump WITCHER and Donald W. Tyner, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CANON CITY, a Municipal Corporation; George R. Turner, Mayor; and Councilmen Robert R. Jacobshagen, Donald T. Packard, James W. Baker, John A Rigirozzi, Frederick Roy Whitney, Lloyd O. Leslie, and Robert Bartlett, individually and in their capacities as members of the City Council for Canon City, Colorado; the Royal Gorge Company of Colorado, a Colorado Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. John Stump WITCHER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CANON CITY, a Home Rule Municipal Corporation of the State of Colorado; the Council of Canon City; George R. Turner, Mayor; and Councilmen Robert R. Jacobshagen, Donald T. Packard, Frederick Roy Whitney, Randel D. Lesher, Geoffery Ormandy, N. Lamar Todd, and Emily Tracy, in their capacities as members of the Council of Canon City, Colorado; and the Royal Gorge Company of Colorado, a Colorado Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

March 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Colorado, Inc., Brian H. Cole, Denver, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Rothgerber, Appel, Powers & Johnson, James R. Everson, David H. Bate, Denver, for defendant-appellee Royal Gorge Co.

Breyfogle & Mandel, Roger M. Breyfogle, Richard G. Mandel, Canon City, for all other defendants-appellees.


ROVIRA, Justice.

This case is an appeal from the district court for Fremont County, challenging an amendment to the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park Lease entered into between Canon City (City) and the Royal Gorge Company of Colorado (Company).1 The district court held, on summary judgment, that the amendment was not subject to referendum under either the Colorado Constitution or the City Charter of...

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