The City of Flagstaff, a Municipal Corporation v. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, a Foreign Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• looking to other jurisdictions for guidance in determining how a local court would decide whether a city may recover extraordinary emergency expenses from negligent tortfeasors where local court had not yet addressed the question
• “Recovery is permitted where it is authorized by statute or regulation, or required to effect the intent of federal legislation.”
• “Recovery has also been allowed where the acts of a private party create a public nuisance which the government seeks to abate”
• applying Arizona law in a case of first impression
• applying Arizona law in a case of first impression
• damages available “where the government incurs expenses to protect its own property”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).