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SINCLAIR MARKETING v. CITY OF COMMERCE CITY

No. 08CA2633.

226 P.3d 1239 (2009)

SINCLAIR MARKETING INC., a Wyoming corporation; Sinclair Oil Corporation, a Wyoming corporation; Sinclair Transportation Company, a Wyoming corporation; Burch Family Partnership, LLP, a Colorado limited liability partnership; Murray Family Farms, LLP, a Colorado limited liability partnership; Blue Dog Leasing, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company; Thomas H. Wielde; Log Jammer, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company; Hunt Brothers Properties, Inc., a Colorado limited liability company; K-W Enterprises, a Colorado general partnership; 9985E104, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company; Continental World Leasing Real Estate, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company; T1 Ellis Enterprises, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company; Marilinn Sonneman; Arthur Crocfer; Mary Jane Crocfer; Bruce J. Crocfer; Eugene A. Kapaun; and Mary Kapaun, Plaintiffs-Appellants and Cross-Appellees, v. The CITY OF COMMERCE CITY, Colorado, a home-rule Colorado municipal corporation; and The City Council for the City of Commerce City, Colorado, Defendants-Appellees and Cross-Appellants.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. IV.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing January 21, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Faegre & Benson, LLP, John R. Sperber, Jacy T. Rock, Denver, Colorado, for Plaintiffs-Appellants and Cross-Appellees Sinclair Marketing Inc.; Sinclair Oil Corporation; and Sinclair Transportation Company Zakhem Atherton, LLC, John S. Zakhem, Matthew J. Cassady, Denver, Colorado, for Plaintiffs-Appellants and Cross-Appellees Burch Family Partnership, LLP; Murray Family Farms, LLP; Blue Dog Leasing, LLC; Thomas H. Wielde; Log Jammer, LLC; Hunt Brothers Properties, Inc; K-W Enterprises; 9985E104, LLC; Continental World Leasing Real Estate, LLC; T1 Ellis Enterprises, LLC; Marilinn Sonneman; Arthur Crocfer; Mary Jane Crocfer; Bruce J. Crocfer; Eugene A. Kapaun; and Mary Kapaun.

Berg Hill Greenleaf & Ruscitti, LLP, Thomas E. Merrigan, Melanie B. Lewis, Heidi C. Potter, Boulder, Colorado, for Defendants-Appellees and Cross-Appellants.

Opinion by Judge WEBB.

This unilateral land annexation case primarily presents the question whether a statutory exception to municipal annexation power concerning "public rights-of-way" includes railroad rights-of-way. The Burch plaintiffs and the Sinclair plaintiffs appeal the trial court's judgment in favor of defendants, the City of Commerce City and the City Council (collectively the City), upholding two annexations of plaintiffs' property. The City cross-appeals...

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