City of Irondale v. City of Leeds

STUART, Justice.

The City of Irondale appeals the summary judgment entered by the Jefferson Circuit Court declaring invalid Irondale’s annexation of a parcel of property owned by the Black Warrior-Cahaba Rivers Land Trust (“the Land Trust”) adjacent to the Cahaba River at the point the Cahaba River intersects U.S. Highway 78, also known as Bankhead Highway, in Jefferson County (this property is hereinafter referred to as “the Land Trust property”). We affirm.

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On December 9, 2006, Jefferson County conveyed multiple parcels of property it owned along the Black Warrior River and the Cahaba River…