Colowyo Coal Co. v. City of Colorado Springs

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding an agreement was not nullified where “[n]othing in the plain language of the document indicate[d] an intention to substitute the [subsequent] agreement for the original contract”
• rejecting the City of Colorado Springs attempt to avoid its obligations under a contract for a long-term coal supply on the ground that this act was proprietary in that it dealt with the utility’s operation, not with rate setting.
• “When the evidence of an agreement consists of documents, as here, the determination of their effect is a matter of law.”
• governmental/proprietary distinction is no longer critical in tort liability because of Governmental Immunity Act, but remains important in other contexts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).