Waste Connections of Kansas, Inc. v. Ritchie Corp.

The opinion of die court was delivered by

Beier, J.:

This is a $550,000 price dispute arising out of plaintiff s right of first refusal to purchase a Wichita waste transfer station from defendant. The catalyst was a third-party’s agreement to buy the transfer station and an adjoining landfill as a package deal or to buy the landfill alone.

The district court judge granted summary judgment to defendant Ritchie Corporation (Ritchie). A panel of our Court of Appeals reversed the summary judgment in Ritchie’s favor, ruled that summary judgment should have been granted to plaintiff Waste Connections…