City of Irondale v. City of Leeds

Summary

The court affirmed summary judgment invalidating Irondale's annexation of the Land Trust property. It held that the Cahaba River was a public waterway for state annexation purposes and that the property was not contiguous with Irondale because the required factors for annexation across a public waterway were absent. The court applied a state-law navigability standard focused on beneficial public use rather than the federal commercial-navigation test.