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CITY OF SEWARD v. WISDOM

No. 627.

413 P.2d 931 (1966)

CITY OF SEWARD, and Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, a foreign Insurance corporation, Appellants, v. Alva WISDOM (deceased), Mrs. Mabel Wisdom and the Alaska Workmen's Compensation Board, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 5, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George N. Hayes and James Singleton, Delaney, Wiles, Moore & Hayes, Anchorage, for appellants.

R.E. Baumgartner, Seward, for appellee Wisdom.

Warren C. Colver, Atty. Gen., and Dorothy Awes Haaland, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee Alaska Workmen's Compensation Board.

Before NESBETT, C.J., and DIMOND and RABINOWITZ, JJ.

RABINOWITZ, Justice.

Alva Wisdom lost his life when a seismic wave resulting from the earthquake of March 27, 1964, engulfed portions of Seward, Alaska. This appeal raises the question of whether, at the time of his death, Alva Wisdom was an employee of the City of Seward. On the record presented to this court, we are constrained to hold that Alva Wisdom was not an employee of the City of Seward at the time of his tragic death. We have therefore concluded that Alva...

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