Hoyt Street Properties, L.L.C. v. Burlington Northern & Santa Santa Fe Railway Co.

OPINION

ASHMANSKAS, United States Magistrate Judge.

This action raises the issue of who is legally responsible for the costs incurred in the environmental clean up of real property referred to by the parties as the Hoyt Street railyard (the “Property”). Hoyt Street Properties, L.L.C., an Oregon limited liability company (“Plaintiff’), is the present owner of the Property. Defendant Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Company (“Defendant”), or its predecessors, owned and occupied the Property from 1906 to 1988. In 1988, Defendant sold the Property to Glacier Park Company, a wholly-owned…