Baldwin County v. Baldwin County Cattle & Fair Association, Inc.
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In 2004, the Baldwin County Commission passed a resolution recognizing the Fair Association's planned construction of a multimillion dollar coliseum at the Association's new fairgrounds site in Baldwin County. The Commission resolved to provide long-term funding for the Fair Association for a period of 10 years, beginning in the County's 2005 fiscal year. In 2008, the County and the Fair Association entered into a real-estate sale and purchase agreement for the conveyance of the coliseum property to the County. The purchase agreement provided that the County would be "released and relieved from paying [the Fair Association]the Seventy Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00), annual payment...." Following conveyance of the coliseum property, the parties entered into a lease agreement for the property. Despite the parties' agreement to discontinue the annual
$75,000 payment to the Fair Association, the County made two additional payments in 2009 and in 2010. Each additional payment was presented to the County Commission as part of the "County Commission Accounts Payable Payments" and approved by the Commission along with payments to other vendors. The County asserted the two payments were made by mistake and sued the Association to recover the payments. After a hearing on the matter, the circuit court granted the Fair Association's motion for a judgment on the pleadings. The County appealed. Finding no reversible error, the Supreme Court affirmed the circuit court's judgment.
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