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PLAINS GRAINS LTD. v. BD. OF COUNTY COM'RS

No. DA 09-0322.

238 P.3d 332 (2010)

2010 MT 155

357 Mont. 61

PLAINS GRAINS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, a Montana limited partnership; Plains Grains, Inc., a Montana corporation; Robert E. Lassila and Earlyne A. Lassila; Kevin D. Lassila and Steffani J. Lassila; Kerry Ann (Lassila) Fraser; Daryl E. Lassila and Linda K. Lassila; Dorothy Lassila; Dan Lassila; Nancy Lassila Birtwisle; Christopher Lassila; Joseph W. Kantola and Myrna R. Kantola; Kent Holtz; Holtz Farms, Inc., a Montana corporation; Meadowlark Farms, a Montana Partnership; Jon C. Kantorowicz and Charlotte Kantorowicz; James Feldman and Courtney Feldman; David P. Roehm and Claire M. Roehm; Dennis N. Ward and LaLonnie Ward; Janny Kinion-May; C Lazy J Ranch; Charles Bumgarner and Karla Bumgarner; Carl W. Mehmke and Martha Mehmke; Walter Mehmke and Robin Mehmke; Louisiana Land & Livestock, LLC, a limited liability corporation; Gwin Family Trust, U/A Dated September 20, 1991; Forder Land & Cattle Co.; Wayne W. Forder and Dorothy Forder; Conn Forder and Jeanine Forder; Robert E. Vihinen and Pennie Vihinen; Violet Vihinen; Robert E. Vihinen, Trustee of Elmer Vihinen Trust; Jaybe D. Floyd and Michael E. Luckett, Trustees of the Jaybe D. Floyd Living Trust; Robert M. Coleman and Helen A. Coleman; Gary Owen and Kay Owen; Richard W. Dohrman and Adele B. Dohrman, Charles Christensen and Yuliya Christensen; Walker S. Smith, Jr. and Tammie Lynne Smith; Jerome R. Thill; and Montana Environmental Information Center, a Montana nonprofit public benefit corporation, Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CASCADE COUNTY, the governing body of the County of Cascade, acting by and through Peggy S. Beltrone, Lance Olson and Joe Briggs, Defendants and Appellees, Southern Montana Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative, Inc.; the Estate of Duane L. Urquhart; Mary Urquhart; Scott Urquhart; and Linda Urquhart, Intervenors, Appellees and Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Submitted January 27, 2010.

Decided July 16, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For Appellants: Roger M. Sullivan (argued) and John F. Lacey, McGarvey, Heberling, Sullivan & McGarvey, Kalispell, Montana, Elizabeth Best, Best Law Offices, Great Falls, Montana.

For Appellees: Alan F. McCormick (argued), Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, Missoula, Montana, Brian J. Hopkins, Cascade County Attorney, Great Falls, Montana (Board of County Commissioners), Gary M. Zadick (argued) and Mary K. Jaraczeski, Ugrin, Alexander, Zadick & Higgins, Great Falls, Montana, (Southern Montana Electric, Estate of Duane Urquhart, Mary Urquhart, Scott Urquhart, Linda Urquhart).

Justice BRIAN MORRIS delivered the Opinion of the Court.

¶ 1 Plains Grains Limited Partnership (Plains Grains) appeals from an order of the Eighth Judicial District Court, Cascade County, granting summary judgment to the Board of Commissioners of Cascade County (County) and Southern Montana Electric (SME) and denying Plains Grains' spot zoning claim. We reverse.

¶ 2 We review the following issues on appeal:

¶ 3 Did Cascade County...

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