Dbt Yuma LLC v. Yuma County Airport Authority

Summary

The court held that the statute designating a nonprofit airport authority as performing an essential governmental function as an agency or instrumentality does not, by itself, create a principal-agent relationship with the county or impute the authority’s contractual liability to the county. Because the plaintiffs acknowledged that their claim rested solely on that statute, the court affirmed summary judgment for the county while vacating specified portions of the court of appeals’ opinion.