State Ex Rel. Hilands Golf Club v. City of Billings

The City of Billings appeals a Yellowstone County District Court judgment which declared that the Hilands Golf Club is statutorily exempted from the City’s attempts to annex it.

The City has raised three arguments. It claims first that the statutory exemption for golf courses does not apply to annexations commenced under the Planned Community Development Act. Second, it claims that the Golf Club was not entitled to protest the City’s proposed annexation because it is not a “resident freeholder” who is entitled to object under the Act, and because the Golf Club filed no written protest with the…