City of Cooper City v. PCH Corp.

COLBATH, WALTER N., Jr., Associate Judge.

Comprehension of the rather involved and complicated facts of this case requires introduction of two additional actors other than the appellant Cooper City (City) and appellee PCH Corp. (PCH); they are, Cooper City Utilities (Utilities) and City of Sunrise (Sunrise).

Overly simplified and broadly generalized, the facts are as follows. On June 22, 1977, PCH and Utilities entered into a Developer’s Agreement in which PCH gave Utilities the exclusive right to provide water and sewage treatment to 520 acres of land which PCH owned and was readying for…